Are jobs obsolete?

[Excaliber]

The author is insane,let us have 310 millions of US on social welfare and who is going to pay for it? And, what does it solve?

It is a step toward abolishing capitalism, which is unfair to lazy stupid people.

Actually, capitalism isn't unfair to those folks - that's why they don't like it.

[apostate]

He has a point insofar as jobs (in the sense of one free man working for another, in exchange for a steady paycheck) were rare before the Industrial Age. It may be that jobs (in that sense) become rare once again, in a post-Industrial economy. Perhaps we will see an increase in small businesses, a greater shift toward on-demand contract labor instead of long-term employer/employee relationships, and other changes that drastically alter the face of business and commerce.

However, I confess I have a hard time wrapping my head around his socialist workers paradise, where migrant farm workers pick vegetables because it's fun.

We start by accepting that food and shelter are basic human rights.

Really? So exactly who was violating the basic human rights of Chuck Noland (Tom Hank's character in Cast Away) by not providing food and shelter without effort?

[Dave2]

He has a point insofar as jobs (in the sense of one free man working for another, in exchange for a steady paycheck) were rare before the Industrial Age. It may be that jobs (in that sense) become rare once again, in a post-Industrial economy. Perhaps we will see an increase in small businesses, a greater shift toward on-demand contract labor instead of long-term employer/employee relationships, and other changes that drastically alter the face of business and commerce.

However, I confess I have a hard time wrapping my head around his socialist workers paradise, where migrant farm workers pick vegetables because it's fun.

We won't even have to do that once they figure out how to automate it.

[Purplehood]

let's see how many girls he can impress with the size of his hard drive or capacity of his RAM rather than with his daily driver car.

No problem as long as the girls are digital/virtual too.

Next time he wants a cheeseburger, let's see if his computer will conjure one up for him.......one that will actually taste like a cheeseburger and have calories/proteins/fats (yummie fats) in it.

Earl Gray. Hot.

LOL, I have always been a closet-fan of the Star Trek genre, but when I saw Star Trek The Next Generation all I could think was "Liberals in Space"!

[sjfcontrol]

LOL, I have always been a closet-fan of the Star Trek genre, but when I saw Star Trek The Next Generation all I could think was "Liberals in Space"!

A spin-off from the Muppets "Pigs In Space", perhaps?

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