a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment
user-inactivated  ·  3078 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Men exiting the workforce as low-wage jobs vanish

    One step closer to a post-scarcity economy? Here's hoping it's that direction and not the direction of starvation, destitution and revolt.

I'd love to think so, but the political problems are more intractable than the technological problems. We can automate the tedious work, but until we're willing to support people who are not working/stop considering it a shameful thing automating the tedious work is benefiting the wrong people.