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There will always be plenty of jobs:

http://books.google.com/books?id=ErEXMCudMZ4C&lpg=PA77&#...

If we run out of jobs, people will start wearing coats made of auditable solved captchas or something, just to prove that they commanded more human labor than the next guy.

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Some people may, but especially in this specific example, there's a large societal force that would positivley squash such behavior. We call it 'fashion' (which is actually quite often linked to inbuilt, brain-hardware based ideas about aesthetics that we can't change)

In the example I linked it is exactly the opposite; aesthetics changing based on the cost/labor to produce rather than anything fundamental to the brain like symmetry, etc.

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