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Ned Sykes from Preoccupied Pipers edited that together from hours of tedious iPhone & digital camera video that we took in England back in May. Amazing skills that guy has. I had to watch it several times to pick out all the little subliminal details.
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The problem is that all this new work-saving technology funnels more of the wealth to the owners of capital - the "corporations" - and away from the workers. In a socialist paradise (note: such a thing is impossible), everyone could share the fruits of machine-automated labor equally, work just a little bit, and live comfortably. But everyone always wants to have MORE. If you're a company owner and you buy new machines that reduce human labor by 50%, are you going to keep paying your human laborers the same salary to do 50% less work? Probably not. So you downsize, or look for new things for them to do. And then you make more money for yourself.
Workers, at least in America, also have the sense that they shouldn't get paid for ( ... )
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Seems to work for you. When's the last time you had a job in a non-communist country?
Anyway, I wasn't looking at it from a realistic economist perspective, but from an anthropological one. For millions of years, humans have always been driven towards thinking up ways to avoid work, and we've pretty much figured it out. Yet in 2011 all anyone can talk about is "jobs" and "work". (I guess it's easy for me to say though, I haven't had to look for a job in a long time. )
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But I do agree with your point. The point of "progress" should be to make things easier and more comfortable for humans, so they can enjoy the same quality of life without working so hard. I don't think there is anything inherently noble about "having a job."
And not having a job (and needing money) sucks.
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Garbage, sewer, water, electricity, fuel, food, clothing, auto repair/upkeep; almost ALL of this is provided by someone else that we have to pay to receive. We are consumers. We don't really produce anything we need ourselves. We grow a few vegetable plants and perhaps have a wood stove to heat our home that we cut our own wood for. Other than that we rely on someone else. Combine this with taxes, the amazingly high cost of housing, etc and work isn't done for the sake of nobility, but just to survive.
The system is designed to keep the money you earn flowing out to someone else. That's why no matter how much you "progress" with technology it doesn't really make things easier for you, because you probably use the technology to largely benefit someone else.
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http://www.alternet.org/story/152383/are_jobs_on_their_way_to_becoming_obsolete_and_is_that_a_good_thing?page=entire
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