I think society has to invent new kinds of work* or introduce UBI. There's too many people toiling away in low wage jobs which will never escape and will have to work until 68.
You would have thought that a job that nobody wants to do would pay more than one that is cushy.
* Getting rid of manufacturing has gotten rid of a huge amount of jobs that provided stability to our economies. Now all our economies are service economies. We can't all be shopkeepers. What are people meant to do with their lives?
Life is more important than work. I'd like to see labour have more leverage over capital.
I think a suspicion is that UBI could help transition the market from being intimately dependent upon positive growth to stasis. Though I also have to question whether that's needed when there's so much inequality. Definitely, equality would bring more energy and resource use...then there's the developing parts of the world.
I think society has to invent new kinds of work* or introduce UBI. There's too many people toiling away in low wage jobs which will never escape and will have to work until 68.
You would have thought that a job that nobody wants to do would pay more than one that is cushy.
* Getting rid of manufacturing has gotten rid of a huge amount of jobs that provided stability to our economies. Now all our economies are service economies. We can't all be shopkeepers. What are people meant to do with their lives?
Life is more important than work. I'd like to see labour have more leverage over capital.