Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.

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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Neoliberal economics has huge downsides we’ve known about forever. But we don’t talk about them until now

That you haven't been talking about them does not mean that no one has.

Also, you're probably wrong about what they are.

The vexing issue of the moment - our need for increasingly less labor - is still not honestly addressed.

That's because it's mostly mythical and/or a non-issue. We simply do not have teeming masses of unused labor.

Might we if automation happens at an ever increasing rate? Maybe, but probably not. Because (1) we don't now and automation isn't new, and (2) people are usually pretty good coming up with other stuff to do.

But I know, you want a neat little story that explains everything and it's not satisfying that a decade from now millions of people will be working in some industry that you and I have not thought up yet.