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Re:What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around? by karllager on Thursday July 21, 2016 @05:14PM (#12140128)
I always wonder, how people can associate effectiveness, success and other positive things with the current developments. The price of the progress, as we experience it today, is enormous. Exhaustion of natural resources, severe climate change, not to mention societal costs. We see a rapid rise in violence across continents and this seems to be just the beginning. I can easily see the western world turning into totalitarian cyber-police states within the next ten years, just to protect against all those humans who are left disillusioned, without jobs, perspectives or with bullshit jobs and basically a life, that some of them will happily trade away for some moments of meaning, when they detonate themselves in a crowded place.

May I ask, is this what you call success?

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Re:What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around? by Bjartr on Thursday July 21, 2016 @05:35PM (#12140266)
Can you provide more detail about the rapid rise in violence across continents you mentioned? Is that measuring it in absolute terms or proportional to the population it occurs in?
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Re:What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around? by dsylexicus on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:16PM (#12140457)
exhaustion of natural resources? hmm. natural resources are INFINITE by definition since the universe is infinite. what is limited are "reserves". panicking about reserves dwindling is what Tim Worstall calls the 'No breakfast fallacy' we dont look at our refrigerator which is running out of milk and worry that the world is running out of milk. we know that there is an entire ecosystem of farmers , truckers and supermarkets producing milk for us. the confusion between reserves an resources is common
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Re:What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around? by FooHentai on Thursday July 21, 2016 @07:30PM (#12140771)
The clear difference being that in your example, you don't need a large reserve of milk as fuel and materials to reach the next available milk supply.

Natural resources which are accessible are being consumed at high rates, and access to further resources will likely require the use of existing reserves put toward that goal.

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