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Orsino

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8. For a while, we'll create new jobs.

Reply to ProfessorPlum (Original post)

Wed Apr 26, 2017, 10:22 AM

Apr 2017

But eventually, the myth that everyone must work for an income will fall apart, try as the billionaires might to sustain it.

When there are demonstrably NOT enough jobs to go around--we're there already--the billionaires have to work harder to justify their labor-free wealth. That they also try to fake a right-to-life orientation will only undercut what amounts to a Right To Be Poor.

We'll decide when we've had enough of that.

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What will we do when there are no more jobs? [View all] ProfessorPlum Apr 2017 OP

Three Numbers...7,5,3 CincyDem Apr 2017 #1

that's an important frame ProfessorPlum Apr 2017 #3

We're already over pretty much every ratio... CincyDem Apr 2017 #5

true, unless we can decide to care for each other ProfessorPlum Apr 2017 #6

I think most people don't talk about this because nobody has an answer for what to do about it. world wide wally Apr 2017 #2

I remember in the 70s ProfessorPlum Apr 2017 #4

I'll be ronatchig Apr 2017 #7

For a while, we'll create new jobs. Orsino Apr 2017 #8

I think it's society's biggest question, actually. Goodheart Apr 2017 #9

Yeah, I'm going with 2) . . . HughBeaumont Apr 2017 #10

sad to say ProfessorPlum Apr 2017 #11

At some point moondust Apr 2017 #12