We are writing software!
It's our fucking job to optimize the world around us.
How do you think can we, as a society, advance while doing bullshit jobs?
Make me obsolete!
It's our fucking job to optimize the world around us.
How do you think can we, as a society, advance while doing bullshit jobs?
Make me obsolete!
You’ll just end up broke and without a job.
I want a society were no one needs to work and we only reach it when the amount of people we need is getting so much less that our society needs to rethink this "work".
Without a job? My work ethic is to work in a way that I'm not needed.
And still I'm needed but instead of doing the same old shit everyday I can innovate because I don't need to fix old shitty written stuff.
However, it's a mistake to believe the rich and powerful will allow such a society to exist since they'd be powerless in it. They will impose artificial scarcity on it in order to maintain the existence of capitalism and their fortunes. Just look at how copyright is ruining free computing and the free internet.
Do you understand how dumb your logic is? Or are you going to continue to hand wave literally everything
That's not to say individuals that compose the class are all willingly and stupidily acting against their own collective best interest while being convince there's a better practical way they can afford to realize with only marginal chances to end up ostracized or severely punished for the sake of the example.
I'm having trouble imagining how such a transition would even look. I mean, do we still have some sort of recognition of property rights for existing property? If not, then how are the currently owned resources "freed"?
If so, then the wealthy would still be wealthy and there'd still be "classes". So, I'm not sure they'd mind so much, but for consideration of their offspring (which I don't discount).
In either case, how do we go about allocating future resources?
2/3 of all consumption is accepted to add no incremental happiness[2]
2/3 of all CO2 emissions can be eliminated through careful lifestyle management and community design.[3]
These quantities do not seem coincidental and they point to a better way of doing things.
You're not wrong, there's no incentive currently to 'pay us back'. But collectively we are working three times as much as necessary so we can afford things that don't make us happy, and there is no way to sustain that state of affairs beyond the next hundred years or so. Scamming or strong-arming the ruling class into paying most of us for work that doesn't add value may be in our best interest in the short term, but for the long term we need to start acknowledging that it's not in anyone's interest that this state of affairs continue.
[1]Bullshit Jobs, the book [2]the Financial-independence-retire-early (FIRE) community [3]studies I came across in my degree on sustainable energy engineering
I mean you’re not wrong, once we purge a large chunk of the population, since ya know, they’ll have no way to provide for themselves, we will have a much greener planet.
I'd actually seriously like to know, do you want people to have to do work that doesn't add value?
Source: I used to be on SSI disability. This is income for those that are so disabled they are never expected to be capable of working. The average SSI payment is something like $585 / mo. Well below the poverty line and any dignified existence. If this is how we treat our most vulnerable, how will we treat those who have simply been automated out of a job?