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How to deal with growing human redundancy
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terry.sh...@gmail.com
Nov 11, 2016, 12:15:02 AM11/11/16
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No doubt this has been covered before, but I'm curious about current views.
The world population is still growing fast, but as technology becomes more sophisticated, the number of people needed to create and maintain the goods and services that people desire or require diminishes. It seems inevitable to me that we can fully expect a growing number of people in the world to be surplus to requirements, in terms of the labour resource that they represent. This goes not only for manual jobs, but also for intellectually-inclined ones; there is only so far you can go in making people useful by educating them.
What then, is the solution? Creating non-jobs, by increasing bureaucracy, cab take up some of the slack, as a short term measure. In the longer term, surely the only way to go, if living standards are to be maintained and preferably increased, is a drastic cut in world population?
Regards.
Terry
The world population is still growing fast, but as technology becomes more sophisticated, the number of people needed to create and maintain the goods and services that people desire or require diminishes. It seems inevitable to me that we can fully expect a growing number of people in the world to be surplus to requirements, in terms of the labour resource that they represent. This goes not only for manual jobs, but also for intellectually-inclined ones; there is only so far you can go in making people useful by educating them.
What then, is the solution? Creating non-jobs, by increasing bureaucracy, cab take up some of the slack, as a short term measure. In the longer term, surely the only way to go, if living standards are to be maintained and preferably increased, is a drastic cut in world population?
Regards.
Terry
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