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Re:The Abolition of Work (2002) by eloisius on Sunday December 20, 2020 @06:09AM (#25485441)
What the hell. How do you suppose energy, transportation, raw materials, fertilizer, paved roads, markets for distribution, etc. would materialize to allow for that 1% agriculture worker population to feed anyone?
Re:The Abolition of Work (2002) by toomuchtodo on Sunday December 20, 2020 @02:25PM (#25488822)
Technology and automation. We’re arguing over how the productivity from those are distributed.
Re:The Abolition of Work (2002) by eloisius on Monday December 21, 2020 @12:11AM (#25492297)
Fully automated space communism has yet to provide automated self-repairing roads, agriculture equipment, etc. so not sure why we’d argue about that yet. The best it was able to produce was famine and the starvation of millions last century.
Re:The Abolition of Work (2002) by toomuchtodo on Monday December 21, 2020 @12:37PM (#25497199)
Humans will still be needed for agriculture production, but if enough people aren’t fed yet we’re able to produce enough food, you use taxes and benefits (EBT, SNAP, higher minimum wages) to fix the allocation issue.

This isn’t rocket science.