2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders, Automation, and the Fate of the US [View all]Baobab
(4,667 posts)Basically, the model of pople needing to spend big chunks of their lives doing unpleasant things they dont want to do for "money" is becoming less and less viable. Big chunks of what we have grown accustmed to is wrong. For example, our society tries to beat creativity out of people so they will be socialized to endless toil in the factories - thats simply no longer a good thing to do. Instead, we need to create a society that allows that intrinsic creativity all children have, to remain. And encourages it.
Also, we need to make the basics free, because soon nobody will be able to afford them if we don't. Really, what we are facing is potentially a very good thing, its just demands a shift in how we think. many people are varying degrees of there already, although less so in some parts of the country than others.