February 17, 2016
WE ALL KNOW WHERE WE'RE HEADED:
Automation may mean a post-work society but we shouldn't be afraid (Paul Mason, 2/17/16, The Guardian)
The automation revolution is possible, but without a radical change in the social conventions surrounding work it will not happen. The real dystopia is that, fearing the mass unemployment and psychological aimlessness it might bring, we stall the third industrial revolution. Instead we end up creating millions of low skilled jobs that do not need to exist.The solution is to begin to de-link work from wages.
One of the more amusing aspects of the insistence that we preserve jobs because they are important to human dignity is the implicit acceptance that we'll return no value for those paychecks....
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 17, 2016 5:46 PM