There is pretty much a consensus that in the first world only about 10-15% need to work to provide *all* goods and services. Then, depending on the system, there are 15-20% of the armed guards (police, military, etc), and the rest are sort of ... redundant. Hence unemployment and poverty.
The quoted numbers (75% engaged) are far too optimistic. > Naval War College), proposes a segmentation between the 5% "Brain > Lords" (i.e. your crew with the "laser pointers" and Wells' "New > Samurai"), the 20% "Upper Servers" who work as their support staff, > the 50% of "service workers" and then the 25% who are permanently > "Lost." # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
