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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 8010136" data-attributes="member: 710">I mean, ultimately, hasn't a goal of technological advancement always been to make things easier for us humans?The problem is mostly that our system still relies on everyone having a &quot;job&quot; to get a &quot;living wage&quot;. If we didn't need that because the machines produce enough of the basic stuff we need anyway and the economical system would reflect that, it would be a lot less of a problem. It wouldn't necessarily remove class problems - the people that don't have a job might still have &quot;less&quot; than the ones that do have a job - but as long as they have housing, food, medical care, sanitation and decent entertainment and leisure options, it wouldn't be such a big deal. But maybe there is a &quot;counter&quot;-element that we didn't account for in our technological progress - people actually might seek having a purpose. And a job is very easy way to feel you have a purpose. In that case, you still need to provide some kind of job - but maybe it doesn't matter that much if its as &quot;productive&quot; as some AI-robot-factory-machine-thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 8010136, member: 710"] I mean, ultimately, hasn't a goal of technological advancement always been to make things easier for us humans? The problem is mostly that our system still relies on everyone having a "job" to get a "living wage". If we didn't need that because the machines produce enough of the basic stuff we need anyway and the economical system would reflect that, it would be a lot less of a problem. It wouldn't necessarily remove class problems - the people that don't have a job might still have "less" than the ones that do have a job - but as long as they have housing, food, medical care, sanitation and decent entertainment and leisure options, it wouldn't be such a big deal. But maybe there is a "counter"-element that we didn't account for in our technological progress - people actually might seek having a purpose. And a job is very easy way to feel you have a purpose. In that case, you still need to provide some kind of job - but maybe it doesn't matter that much if its as "productive" as some AI-robot-factory-machine-thing. [/QUOTE]

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