Re:America's Jobless Future?
by jacoblyles on Monday February 15, 2010 @03:24PM
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Tired old statistic: in the 1700s, 90% of American workers worked on farms. But because of automation, today only 2% of workers do and we are better off for it. We spend a smaller percentage of our resources on producing the food we eat and can put those resources to other uses. Also, it is not true that 88% of people are unemployed.
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Yes but during the industrial revolution we had a lot of unmet need. Now, we are much better off. I'm not convince there is enough need to justify keeping everyone employed.
Re:America's Jobless Future?
by jacoblyles on Monday February 15, 2010 @07:27PM
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Just to be clear, the entire history of humankind is evidence against your theory. You are guessing that something will happen that has never happened before.
That's not as bad as it sounds. Every event has to happen for a first time. But you should realize that you are making a very extreme claim based on nothing more than speculation.
I'm quite probably wrong and I'm also playing devils advocate poorly. What I'm trying to say is we already have almost everything we need. While I can point to many aspects of my life that could be improved upon, I can't point to many where the improvement would result in more and better jobs.