The comedian Doug Stanhope has a great rant about jobs — specifically, why do we need to have them? Why do politicians talk endlessly about creating them and why do people take pride in spending their lives doing them even if they actually hate them? He says, "Shouldn’t the long-term goal of any society be complete UN-employment?"
This is, of course, an unconventional thought. Stanhope’s point is that as automation and efficiency expand, the resulting elimination of jobs is a good thing. In fact, the entire point of technological progress should be to make our lives easier, less full of […]
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