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Nonsense. The economy's groundrules are determined by politics.
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Not anymore. We gave that job to the market a long time ago.
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Republican politicians care more about preserving their jobs than anything else.
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Ok. Immortal suicide bombers.
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OK -- let's have that conversation. Can we use technology to enter Keynes' post-work world? And what does that mean?
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Not entirely post-work, but a 15 hr week.
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/13/432122...as-he-so-wrong
My personal opinion is the Protestant Work Ethic is one of the most simultaneously diabolical and progressive concepts ever conceived. I still get creeped out in arguments with its advocates. You can cite them all the science, data, and logic in the world to prove they're toiling for the pointless, and all they can tell you is they know they're right. So many years of indoctrination... So frighteningly well developed and deeply driven into into their skulls. And over the very short term, they are right.
But then, over the long run, we are all dead.
Satan isn't the most compelling character since Milton's day without reason. He isn't loathed for his evil. He's loathed for telling the truth... that he doesn't exist, and nor does his divine opponent... And if time is all you have, foremost, to the cost of all other concerns which fall far, far below it -- have a good time.