Posted: Sep 10, 2016 3:44 am
tuco wrote:
At least 3? Well, I am with Thommo on this, who explained it plainly - eternal growth. Productivity can increase only through technologies, ie robots will do work and humans will reap benefits.
He was ridiculously suggesting that my immigration solution would require some notion of "eternal exponentially increasing population" to address the population bubble. In your second sentence you are talking about what I am discussing - productivity growth. So I don't know how you are agreeing with Thommo. Be that as it may, automation and AI will be the biggest change in terms of productivity in the future. That should issue in a golden age where we are all granted more free time to pursue non work related activities without the stress of having to mostly work for our wage, but the conservative ethic inherent in neoliberalism may not allow for that to occur.