Quote: (10-27-2014 08:20 PM)Travesty444 Wrote:
When I say contribute I don't mean to human happiness.
I.E., the "40% in arts and design".
I am sure everyone can help contribute by taking kids to finger painting classes, playing chess with old people, and creating knick-knacks that people exchange.
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Ay - sooner or later there comes a time - even with our current technology, where most people are not needed to produce, create and explore new frontiers. All goods and services could be done by a small part of the population.
If energy would be free (which it would be if it were not for profit motives & control of the matrix), then even more processes would be automated.
To advance and upkeep civilization I estimate that only 20% of the work-force is really needed, if you take into account that many appliances could be made to last decades or longer easily.
Then what should the rest do? Well - our current dictatorship has decided for long-term depopulation. They did not ask for volunteers, but went ahead - most of it done via toxic food, deadly mostly ineffective medicine, feminism, sexual liberation, LBGT agenda, some wars (the least part honestly) etc. So that little unemployment issue is being taken care of.
If someone cannot serve the plutocracy, then there is no use for that person. We are truly the only species who absolutely must serve the 0,001% in order to justify our existence.
Thankfully life itself serves a different purpose than catering to them. That's what was so unique in Christianity back then, because it said that EVERYONE was valuable and divine - in a time where the powerless were enslaved and had no rights at all.
That is why some kind of GBI will have to exist sooner or later, but there are ways to do it, so that people still serve society. If the current political system is pushing it, then it will have major nasty conditions attached to it - have no doubt about it. Plus - it will be based on our usual system of compound interest.