Caldwing t1_j2n31o9 wrote
Like in every other field technology slowly makes it possible for fewer and fewer people to do more and more. This makes more and more people superfluous. The percentage of the human race that is now truly needed to grow all the food. build everything, maintain everything, and provide all entertainment is actually pretty small. I am only estimating but it's maybe like 1 in 4. The only reason most people work is because our economic model forces a huge amount of needless labour by making everything a competition.
hitssquad t1_j2n7s19 wrote
> This makes more and more people superfluous.
Then global unemployment must have reached 100% 10,000 years ago, and stayed there: https://reason.com/2007/09/26/the-4-boneheaded-biases-of-stu/
###Make-Work Bias
> I was an undergraduate when the Cold War ended. I still remember talking about military spending cuts with a conservative student. The whole idea made her nervous; she had no idea how a market economy would absorb the discharged soldiers. In her mind, to lay off 100,000 government employees was virtually equivalent to disemploying 100,000 people for life.
Caldwing t1_j2tmhan wrote
I'm not saying they don't have jobs I am saying those jobs themselves are a waste of time.
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