From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 08:39:18 MST
Samantha writes
> But what the heck is "work" when increasingly large groups of people
> have no skills that are not subsumed by or made irrelevant by
> accelerating technology? There is no need in advanced countries for
> everyone to be in full-time work of any conventional kind.
> Personally, I believe a great deal of good could come from a
> society with such real material abundance that no one
> "works" except on that which they are truly interested in.
How can the present situation in the developed countries,
holding many millions of persons each, be altered so that
no one has to work except as it interests them?
Do you believe that a sufficiently strong government could
make an announcement of some kind? Or do you believe that
good will on the part of a lot of corporations or rich
people could pull it off?
Perhaps the government could announce a ten-year plan at
the end of which no one has to work who doesn't want to?
Thanks,
Lee
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