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30. The left's answer to automation still needs to be found

This is an international issue, it affects every country.

A few years ago, the left's answer to automation was "MORE EDUCATION!". Of course, after robots took over more and more production jobs, you could still get a job in some office as some kind of clerk if you could use a computer.

But those jobs are now mostly going away, too. Everything is self-service, algorithm-based, pure software, etc.

Looks like the number of jobs for people who are not very skilled (and/or not very talented) will decline even more in the future. A few will remain, like nursing and child care. The number of jobs for highly skilled workers is not unlimited, either. We only need a limited number of rocket scientists, robot engineers, journalists or software developers.

Thinking that we can employ 7 billion people in the future is pretty dumb, in my opinion.



Now the big problem is: LABOR used to be the main method to extract money out of the people who, through some way or other, have that money in their possession. Naturally, money flows from poor people to rich people through interest payments and ROI. Everyone else then needs some way to get some money back from those who have too much of it. Labor worked great, because it helped both sides. Now that labor is less and less useful, we need other ways to take money from those who have it and give it to those who need it (but can't find a reasonable job). That means TAXES! Yep. Wellfare state. Basic income grant. Socialist/communist policies. How do we get these things? I don't know. Once unemployment rates go up and labor can no longer be used to sustain a normal live, "something gotta give".