As a science-fiction fan, I am very much looking forward to the jobless economy. Ask anybody who holds a job now (let alone 2 or 3 of them to try to make ends meet) how much they like work. Virtually everybody will tell you that they can hardly wait until retirement, assuming they can afford it.
But we can afford it — for virtually everybody! We’re the richest society in the history of the planet, and computers and machines are taking over more and more of the really crappy jobs, so there’s no economic reason why the average worker’s career couldn’t run, say, about 10 years, followed by another 50-60 of leisure and recreation. We just have to persuade all the corporate CEOs to share the obscene amounts of wealth they’re hoarding for themselves.
As a science-fiction fan, I am very much looking forward to the jobless economy. Ask anybody who holds a job now (let alone 2 or 3 of them to try to make ends meet) how much they like work. Virtually everybody will tell you that they can hardly wait until retirement, assuming they can afford it.
But we can afford it — for virtually everybody! We’re the richest society in the history of the planet, and computers and machines are taking over more and more of the really crappy jobs, so there’s no economic reason why the average worker’s career couldn’t run, say, about 10 years, followed by another 50-60 of leisure and recreation. We just have to persuade all the corporate CEOs to share the obscene amounts of wealth they’re hoarding for themselves.