1/ Thought: when s/w, robots eat bullshit jobs, to the extent that they're done by people with alt support, new jobs don't replace them
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2/ People who HAVE to work or risk starving/becoming homeless are in trouble, but people who just suffer standard of living decrease aren't
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3/ Income inequality creates leisure class of people not hurting enough to take downward mobility jobs, not free enough to innovate new ones
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4/ The only thing this class lacks that employment provides is status hierarchy to inhabit.But game worlds etc. are starting to provide that
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5/ This means "unemployment problem" is meaningless, as it was back in Luddite era,but people not *wanting* to work is likely new phenomenon
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but you're describing almost all the hobbyist makers: the opensource developers, the craft artisans on Etsy, the musicians and artists.
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precisely. People who only have to pretend to work to have a socially acceptable ans to "what do you do?" profit is optional.
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