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Re:Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, s... by blumkvist on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @11:44AM (#10079798)
One teacher per 5 kids seems reasonable to me and will more than quadruple the kindergarten teachers. Homeschooling is a terrible idea as is, but more pedagogues will completely remove any logical reasons to even consider it.

But why do you latch to the specific job i picked? More ecologists, more physicians, more nurses, more psychologists, more people in the creative industries. More people in the "caring" industries as a whole. Workforce shifted from labor to knowledge. It will now shift to societal work.

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Re:Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, s... by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @11:55AM (#10079864)
But...why? Why make up 'societal work', to keep people busy? Is it such a bad idea that folks should be able to choose their own lives, doing their own thing?

For instance, I might never want to become a touchy-feely creative-industry person. What is there in this planned society for me?

The trouble with this discussion is, that it starts assuming everybody must have a job. I disagree; that's the old pre-abundance view of the world. We have to get past that.

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Re:Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, s... by blumkvist on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @02:16PM (#10081050)
It is not made up work. Ultimately our job is to maintain a healthy eco system. This includes building a society that knows better than greed and decadence. Raising children who do not perceive themselves as rulers of the world.
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