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Re: Government Day-to-Day
« Reply #765 on: November 12, 2020, 05:50:55 pm »
You're changing the subject and now talking about a hypothetical future where you're now able to employ some kind of socialist dream where people don't have to work.  There will obviously be some kind of transition period if/when automation explodes.  But that doesn't mean jobs will go away. People predicted we wouldn't have to work or would have so much more free time after the industrial revolution and it didn't happen.  We really don't know what the future holds.

It sure did happen! Immediately following the industrial revolution and again it's happening in the age of electronics and the internet. You need to peruse some statistics on the numbers of people working parttime jobs in MacD's and maybe some research on how many Americans are on food stamps. So your argument is wrong. But in fairness, only wrong to some degree on which we aren't in agreement because we haven't talked on specifics yet.




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Having too much free time is and will be bad for people psychologically.  It's fun for a while but many people will get fat, lazy, and useless like a house cat that just sits around and sleeps all day.  Consider what boredom will do to statistics such as infidelity, depression, suicide, alcoholism/drug use, obesity/heart disease/diabetes.  Consider the divorce rate when couples are around each other far more.

All very true! All of those issues need to be considered.

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People have been forced to get up in the morning and work to survive throughout the entirety of human history, as has virtually every animal organism (search for food, build shelter etc).  Taking that away will have unintended consequences.

Yes, of course on the unintended consequences! But building a shelter and searching for food, as you've mentioned, aren't necessary anymore.

For the sake of it being interesting, tell me what the etc. is?
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