So true. The real problem we are facing is not lack of growth, it's getting used to the situation that we'll never again achieve absolute employment, since the need of human labour is shrinking. Depending on our choices today we may end up in either Star Trek or Elysium kind of society in the future.

I can only applaud Switzerland taking seriously this, as well as basic income initiative. If anyone is able to pull it through, it's them. The only pity is that the current discussion is made in German, so most of the anglosphere won't be able to read or contribute to the discussion directly, and would be left to low quality "journalism" as a source of information about the debate.