Quote (thesnipa @ May 2 2019 08:37am)
it's almost like people could find something to "work" on when they don't have to "work" for the money they need to survive. or something.
i cant understand why someone would have such a binary outlook on the future. people seem to either want Mike Rowe for potus with everyone going back to hauling a lunchbox into the mines or they think we're 20 years from WALL-E and soon we'll all be chairbound slugpersons.
many of the homestead-esque skills the populace has lost are due to not having time to hone them. gardening, home repair, food processing, etc are all something the underemployed have time for while full time employees have a harder time fitting them into their schedule. and they're all necessities for self reliance when your income doesn't come lock stock and barrel from a company you work for. the very idea that someone will work for a paycheck less and that translates directly to work overall is absurd. to write that tosh for a few pages without ever considering this is moronic. and it shows he doesnt understand the issue, he's writing a fluffpiece for people who are on a labor centric mindset, likely due to ignorance and not thinking about the subject further than skin deep.
I live in the inner city where a good portion of the people don’t work or work relatively little and there’s no wonderful gardens in sight tbh. Many of the houses are dilapidated so the point that more free time will just be replaced by other type of work doesn’t always hold.
Tbh I don’t really understand why you’re so adamant in calling people stupid that simply have a different opinion on this subject. Like i said both your point on automation and his point on work being good are valid so why go agro?
Just curious, let’s say in 30 years Labor force participation rate is like 40% due to automation. Let’s say everyone is getting the 1k or possibly more. Would you be for or against some top-down “work” creation by govt?