Quote: (07-13-2013 11:07 PM)tairos Wrote:
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The end game is there will be a Post-Work world where notion of working builds character will be laughed at it. It may take 30-50 years but it will come. Increasingly sophisticated automation, robotics and technology won't leave much room for people working.
This is long overdue as it is. They've been predicting this for decades, and there's no valid reason why they shouldn't have been correct.
I agree. What's been missed is that, in fact, many of the problems the middle class have faced since the 70's have been the result of insufficient technological progress.
See: Tyler Cowen's "The Great Stagnation" and especially Peter Thiel's speeches and writings on technological stagnation.
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