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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The notion that everyone “needs” to work or “should” work in antiquated.  There is a nascent movement, which will take hold within our children’s adult lives, that we can eliminate the “need” for everyone to work by  automating everything that can be automated. We can start by eliminating "busy work" jobs.

Industrial society has driven down the cost of production through two things: exploitation of cheap overseas labor, and mechanization and automation. Mechanization has vastly reduced the need for labor. More could be done to continue this trend, but historically it has been opposed by unions because it puts people out of work. In Japan where there is a labor shortage and aging population they automate everything that can be automated. Any remaining jobs should be divided up between everyone who wants to work, reducing the hours of all jobs until all those who want to work have the working hours that they want.

We need to change how society thinks about people who do not work. Stop resenting them, stop begrudging them any small luxuries that they may have. Every adult citizen would receive a salary, paid to them by the government, of enough to cover basic living costs. It would perhaps be set at a level that would cover one person living in a shared house or a couple living together.

This sounds very "far out" but it is the future - there just isn't so much work that everyone needs to work.
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Ummmm, where is "the government" going to get the money to pay everyone a salary for doing nothing?[/quote]

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