Re:Millions of Men Are Missing from the Job Market
by wu-ikkyu on Monday October 17, 2016 @10:25AM
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>Nobody owes you a living. "Contributing to the labour force" isn't a religion; it is a necessary condition of life, without which we starve. There's no free lunch...It is self-delusional
100 years ago this may have been true, but there has been this great thing called automation (letting machines do our work for us) which has flourished over the past century (especially in the area of food production).
Food production is a solved problem. ~40% of food goes wasted in the US every year.
So no, we don't need "all hands on deck" to keep us from starving anymore. Insisting on such in the face of obvious surplus and an obesity epidemic is what is delusional.
100 years ago this may have been true, but there has been this great thing called automation (letting machines do our work for us) which has flourished over the past century (especially in the area of food production).
Food production is a solved problem. ~40% of food goes wasted in the US every year.
So no, we don't need "all hands on deck" to keep us from starving anymore. Insisting on such in the face of obvious surplus and an obesity epidemic is what is delusional.