Thomas Lunde wrote:
>
> >> Thomas:
> >>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> The only human jobs for the semi- to unskilled will be as a
> >> Courier driver delivering parcels or pizza delivry guy/girl
> >> and even both of those "jobs" could be automated. It's time
> >> to own up that we need a new way to distribute income other
> >> than working - the production of goods and services are
> >> still there and need consumers to exist
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I have not been following this thread closely, but I do wonder
whether there is any intrinsic limit to Capitalism's capacity to
"make work". For the high IQ people, there is computer programming
and advertising (two Susyphean labors!), etc.
For the less skilled, there are all the
"service" jobs -- waiters and waitresses (and Starbucks crews...),
etc. If *none* of the up-scale cook their own food, and none of
the service sector people cook their own food either
(because they are too busy working...), that's a
lot of "service sector" jobs. Then there are the housecleaning
services, the services that offer to do *anything* (walk the dog,
stand in line for whatever *you* otherwise would have to
stand in line for, organize your closets, etc.).
The monetarization of the human life world is far from
completed.
And let's not forget about war, which uses up lots of
human and other resources....
I'm not saying I'm sure capitalism *will* be able to
sustain full employment. I'm only speculating that it
*might* be able to come up with enough ultimately useless but
"economically necessary" activity to be able to
maintain a wage-work driven society of scarcity where, otherwise
there might be enough for everybody with very little work.
\brad mccormick
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