Posted: May 26, 2019 11:04 am
Remember this: I do nothing at work all day - http://www.rationalskepticism.org/gener ... 53012.html ? Apparently, Garm also got his work done. On my last job when I had nothing to do I went home and the hours missing I took out of my holiday allowance simply because I was not going to pretend to be working when I was not. I am not saying you were doing it but .. we have different ideas when it comes to what constitutes a great job. After all, you said yourself it was great for a temporary job. Some people do it all their lives. My coworkers in the factory I mentioned were doing it for 25 years while I was going nuts after one day.
Automation will not rob humans of voluntary, let's not argue that a factory job is voluntary because one voluntarily agrees to do it, labor. If someone likes to work with wood, for example, one does not have to work in a factory cutting logs into standard sizes all day, for example. One can work on own projects, doing stuff with wood s/he actually likes to do, unlike doing it just for a paycheck.
So the loss of access to labor due to automation I do not see as a problem. The problem is the loss of income and for some too much of free, unorganized, time. All I am saying, let's talk about this, let's talk about how to cope with it. Nothing can stop businesses from automation simply because businesses exist to generate profit and if robots will generate more income than humans, humans will be replaced. Been like that since first industrial revolution. Wondering .. people need jobs .. no, people need income and some people need to do some work, either organized or on their own.
Automation will not rob humans of voluntary, let's not argue that a factory job is voluntary because one voluntarily agrees to do it, labor. If someone likes to work with wood, for example, one does not have to work in a factory cutting logs into standard sizes all day, for example. One can work on own projects, doing stuff with wood s/he actually likes to do, unlike doing it just for a paycheck.
So the loss of access to labor due to automation I do not see as a problem. The problem is the loss of income and for some too much of free, unorganized, time. All I am saying, let's talk about this, let's talk about how to cope with it. Nothing can stop businesses from automation simply because businesses exist to generate profit and if robots will generate more income than humans, humans will be replaced. Been like that since first industrial revolution. Wondering .. people need jobs .. no, people need income and some people need to do some work, either organized or on their own.