Re:Why hasn't prefab construction taken over?
by marcusverus on Monday October 12, 2020 @07:49PM
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I agree that the job-generation cycle may not last forever. But in order to oppose new tech as a bad thing right now, you have to make the case that the job-generation cycle is broken right now.
Arguing against new tech now because of some inevitable eventual breakdown of the job-generation cycle is just luddism with extra steps.
Re:Why hasn't prefab construction taken over?
by andrewflnr on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @11:27AM
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Sure, it's the blind faith that everything will magically be fine that pisses me off. We need to be preparing for a post-work economy.
There's no reason to expect the job-generation cycle to last forever. In fact there's every reason to believe it can't. The question is whether it ends on a scale more like decades or centuries. To blindly assume that things will continue as they have is foolish. (To be clear, I think the solution looks more like UBI than Luddism.)