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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Jan 2015
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      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. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Jan 2015
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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. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Jan 2015
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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. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Jan 2015
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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. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Jan 2015
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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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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Jan 2015
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      6/ We fantasize about leisure, but very few are temperamentally suited to it, and society has never had institutions to support it.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Jan 2015
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      7/ So leisure societies of the past have been temporary and "decadent" in a destabilizing way, not just morally objectionable to a few

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Jan 2015
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      8/ Game worlds are perhaps first true leisure institutions that allow for "stable decadence" -- still morally objectionable to some, but...

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Jan 2015
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      9/ Not fundamentally a "bad" thing in any non-moralistic sense.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Jan 2015
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      10/ Unlike TV which is not rich enough to prevent atrophy of the self, games I think are rich enough to sustain non-degenerative leisure

      10:18 AM - 24 Jan 2015
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Jan 2015
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          11/ We will soon be asking, "how can smart people be idling away playing video games when there are starving children in Africa to help?"

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          12/ Many will find it an outrage that a leisure society can exist for a few (and I don't mean 1%ers) while there is "important" work to do

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        1. Gary Basin‏ @garybasin 24 Jan 2015
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          @vgr really? I'm skeptical, whats the strongest piece of evidence? Are you comparing them to menial labor or what?

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        1. Meng Weng Wong‏ @mengwong 24 Jan 2015
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          @vgr Aha! You are talking about the Metaverse's top swordfighter, who, in real life, delivers pizza. And then it leads to the Matrix.

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        1. das blinkenlight‏ @tubelite 24 Jan 2015
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          @vgr "Game Theory of the Leisure Class"

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