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Originally Posted by Marc Vaughan
I'm not saying we should HOWEVER as a society we have to stop victimizing people for being unemployed at some stage if society is going to continue to function in 20, 30 years time when the vast amount of service jobs will have been automated (that means either moving onto something other than capitalism OR actually forcing the corporations to pay taxes and having proper provision and training for people who aren't fortunate enough to have jobs).
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This to me is what's strange. In so many ways, we've made our society so efficient that we don't need people for some things anymore. This trend will surely continue. So the question is, what to do with these people. Do we come up with a job rotation system where people rotate in and out of jobs every other week so everybody's at least making some? Do we purposely do away with things so as to get people their jobs back? Do we put people to work on infrastructure projects so that we're seeing something for our money for welfare, etc.? So many people in these positions are capable of working so we need to start thinking about what types of projects we want to accomplish overall. The money's being spent anyway so we might as well find a way to get production from it.