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drsmithy (#46253927) Attached to: Star Trek Economics  Our
society has become massively automated compared to the middle
ages. And we have 25 times the world population now. Yet we
still have plenty of jobs;  No we don't. It's be decades since
any western country had full employment, or even a policy to
achieve same, thanks to the sadistic neoliberal idea of NAIRU.
In most of the western world, there are an order of magnitude
more job seekers than there are jobs.  And that's not even
taking into consideration the swathes of the population involved
in unproductive, pointless, bullshit jobs that serve no real
purpose (eg: most layers of management).  Within a generation,
two at the outside, the vast, vast majority of jobs involving
manual labour will be performed by robots, except for those
targeting the high-end luxury market. I expect a fairly large
chunk of today's "intellectual" jobs will also disappear towards
the end of that timeframe (eg: basic eng