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For what do so many individuals need to even exist?
And how are the masses going to pay for all that education being pursued just for its own sake when they live off of a UBI (likely subsistence-level) income????? Or is that liberal arts or other education going to be provided to them for free or nearly so?
Who exactly do you believe gets the benefit of those efficiencies?
It sounds as though it's NOT the owners and shareholders.
That's up to us. We have had 40 years now of everything going preferentially to owners and shareholders. That has not worked out well for anyone else or for the country as a whole. Maybe we need to rethink this a little.
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The best chance that YOU have is to reduce the number of people you'll have to compete against to get one of these increased output jobs. (which btw should pay pretty well under such circumstances)
I appreciate your concern, but I'm personally quite happy being well-situated enough to be one of the roughly 90 million Americans who presently do not have a job and do not want one either. Otherwise the contemplated problem is one of distribution. With fewer people working, an increasing reliance on means other than income will be needed in accomplishing resource allocation.
There should still be plenty of jobs this century. In the year 2510....
I don't condemn the people of the early 16th century for their many failures to make my life today any easier. Similarly, I will count on the people of 2510 to work through their own problems and difficulties as they can.
You still haven't proven economically why someone is entitled to a certain Standard of Living or Life-Style.
Hmmm. What did the global collapse of capitalism teach us? Where did all those Depression-era work programs come from? Where have all these post-WWII social welfare programs come from?
And how are the masses going to pay for all that education being pursued just for its own sake...
What masses?
See, that's the fulcrum point in the discussion as I see it.
Whether we do something about the real problem of just too damned many.. or just ignore it.
We have had 40 years now of everything going preferentially to owners and shareholders.
That has not worked out well for anyone else or for the country as a whole.
Maybe we need to rethink this a little.
It's pretty much ingrained in the American mindset at least that individual women guide their own reproductive histories. Do-gooders cannot keep them from reproducing, nor can they compel them to it either. And with all that in mind, the CDC tells us that US fertility rates are at their lowest levels in recorded history. The government began keeping these records in 1909.
Oh. Did you perhaps get a new book during the holidays?
I'm sure you've already realized how weak this really was.
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I am as well. As are my TWO kids and my brothers TWO kids. And largely because our parents and in-laws also limited themselves to few kids.
Anecdotes are not better evidence than baseless assumptions.
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Well YOUR contemplation is ...as you keep coming back to that. I'll keep coming back to having fewer forks poised over the pie.
The number of forks is actually an example of insufficient evidence, as the size of the pie is continuously changing. It is meanwhile an unassailable fact that there will be a given GDP and total population, and that the problem from there is simply one of allocation and distribution.
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