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I think many (most?) jobs are to some extent simply places to warehouse and keep the population busy and out of trouble. Many do not really require 40+ hours per week and employees already sense and implement reduced work by wiling away time on the internet looking a funny cat pictures and Pat Net, or listening to an electronic music device. SO I agree that labor is a control method just as the pyramids may have been public projects with that as part of the goal.
Oyster Shuckers around turn-of-the-century
A world without jobs? Sounds like Detroit.
We may not be without jobs, but we could have been at a shorter work week.
We may not be without jobs, but we could have been at a shorter work week. As technology progresses, we should have a natural deflation born of more productivity per worker. People could take a pay cut from a 3 day work week since the lower pay would buy the same goods as what a previous era's 5 day work pay would buy. The reason this has not come about is debt - a society of people with 30 year mortgages cannot tolerate deflation.
But also, capital has managed to take all of the productivity gains away from labor:
They thought: ‘What will become of the social order?’”Also explains the continual war on drugs.
8 years of it.
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