According to an "expert" on the radio this morning In 20 to 40 years most of us will not be working he said they have already replaced 800,000 jobs, if we are not working what will we do and how do we pay the bills?
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If you turned off the benefits tap for two weeks, many cities in this country would descend into anarchy.
When it comes to large urban areas, we are now for the most part just groups of disparate peoples, living along side each other.
I think we need to stop the large movement of people entering Europe and think of another way of funding peoples retirement because it is basically a ponzi scheme where we have to constantly import masses of people who will need even more people imported to fund their pensions later on.
Even that won't work because there will be no jobs so we will just have a massive population that will need to have benefits provided for.
People have no idea how fragile society is, if the pound crashed we would be in very serious trouble, very quickly.
I can remember being told the same sort of thing at college in 1965. I'm still working 52 years later.According to an "expert" on the radio this morning In 20 to 40 years most of us will not be working he said they have already replaced 800,000 jobs, if we are not working what will we do and how do we pay the bills?
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There's quite a few variants on this 'quote' but they do say, "civilisation is only two meals from anarchy"
According to an "expert" on the radio this morning In 20 to 40 years most of us will not be working he said they have already replaced 800,000 jobs, if we are not working what will we do and how do we pay the bills?
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I think we need to stop the large movement of people entering Europe and think of another way of funding peoples retirement because it is basically a ponzi scheme where we have to constantly import masses of people who will need even more people imported to fund their pensions later on.
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Not much different to 'now', then. Days will be spent watching Jeremy Kyle and living off McDonalds and KFCs paid for by those who are working ( at McDonalds and KFC).
According to an "expert" on the radio this morning In 20 to 40 years most of us will not be working he said they have already replaced 800,000 jobs, if we are not working what will we do and how do we pay the bills?
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The rich will get richer and more powerful, and the workers will get poorer and will eventually become irrelevant.
In the past, automation has created jobs as well as replaced them, but as we head towards the 'singularity', technology is becoming so advanced that more and more jobs can be replaced.
It is happening. Maybe not as fast as some have suggested. But it ill happen.
Eventually the rich will be able to isolate themselves from labour, and generate capital without needing workers. No wage and no threat of strike action makes the workforce irrelevant.
What happens to the ex-workers grumbling at the factory gates and getting restless? Maybe the rich will decide to redistribute their wealth, and will be happy to pay for the workers to do nothing. Or maybe someone will decide that they are a nuisance and that the world would be more profitable without them.
Sorry, that is grim picture isn't it.
I have been reading 'Four Futures' by Peter Frase - it is terrifying.
Let's not worry though, the experts may be wrong.
and if there are no consumers to buy stuff because they dont have an income?
There is also the gene roddenberry view of humanity & technology which is more optimistic and the global liberal? elite looking towards one world government. It could turn out like the star trek founders vision although a lot of people have suffered in the attempt to get to that stage. EU & USA elites have ignored this fact and thats why trump got the job.
population control with robots looking after the elderly. continuous growth and consumption is eating the planet.
feeding us chopped up humans aka soylent green. :mrgreen:There won't be any human burger flippers at McDonald's they will be the ones loading the conveyor belts.
feeding us chopped up humans aka soylent green. :mrgreen:
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