>Employment isn't the goal of an economy. Production is. We can give people a basic income if necessary, if robots are doing everything. But we shouldn't artifi

>Employment isn't the goal of an economy. Production is. We can give people a basic income if necessary, if robots are doing everything. But we shouldn't artificially boost employment where it isn't needed. How would you say that fits with the whole fake jobs in europe?[0] Would you classify it as artificially boosted employment (or at least the allocation of resources for tasks where the production value is arguably zero for any individual beyond the person doing the task, than say, allocating resources for construction of CSP plants to bring down costs of electricity for everyone in the medium-long term)? If so, it seems some nation states might differ in what they think the goal of the economy is for. [0] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/business/international/in-europe-fake-jobs-can-have-real-benefits.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/business/international/in-...