Title: Mcgowanjm Wire 2012 Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Feb 26, 2012 Author:Various Post Date:2012-02-26 09:15:13 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:1403705 Comments:2390
What will everyone do for work when everything is automated? They'll take care of old people and sick people, because people would rather interact with human beings if possible. How will we afford all this caretaking for the elderly? Because there will be so much automation that we'll enjoy lives of material plenty even with very little human work.
Kevin Drum calls this "our bed pan and canasta future." Russ Douthat at the New York Times comments, "video games in the morning, changing strangers' bedpans
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People will just get used to it over time, just as all the former union guys who were shocked by post union work rules and right to work laws had to get used to having less power and control over their working lives and declining wages while their pensions could be taken on a whim by management and disappeared (while executive pay and benefits went through the roof). Today's generation of children are used to being spied on, treated like sheep in schools, abused by police and authorities, disrespected by adults and feared by fellow potential employees who don't have the computer skills they do.
To paraphrase a line from Eastern Europe: the economy is not working for the American people, therefore we must reinvent the people."
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4) The increase in mental illness and medication is in large part because life in America is extraordinarily unpleasant.
You live in a militarized surveillance society with no guaranteed health care and with a job market that doesn’t provide enough jobs for those who need it, allowing bosses to treat those who do have jobs like shit, and executives to take virtually all productivity gains for themselves.
