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Patrick Haller  
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 More options Sep 7 2011, 10:19 pm
From: Patrick Haller <patrick.hal...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:19:14 +0800
Local: Wed, Sep 7 2011 10:19 pm
Subject: Re: [HackerspaceSG] The Basic Income (Grundeinkommen)
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On 2011-09-08 02:57, Jan Detlefsen wrote:

> what if there will be less and less jobs by the progress we make in
> technology, so that unemployment is a given and we can't do anything
> against it? i think we are living in those times already.

I doubt it; Rushkoff (and Jaron Lanier [1]) seem to view work as finite,
so once all work is done, then we have a big unemployment party. I can't
reconcile that with human nature, in that our wants seem infinite.

Boundless desires seem to imply an infinite amount of work. And while
more robots would be awesome, they each cost some materials and energy,
so we'll never have infinite robots.

While we may have infinite work to do, the nature of that work will
probably be changing as fast as the technology we build our societies
upon. We will probably face more uncertainty regarding career paths,
much like Toffler suggested in Future Shock [2].

However, there will always be jobs to do if we can and want to take the
time and effort to retool ourselves to do them.

Patrick

[1] http://haller.ws/logs/index.html/LanierTechnologicalUnemployment
[2] http://haller.ws/logs/index.html/FutureShock/


 
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