what if instead of having an economy where everyone had to work just to provide for themselves we had an economy that based on the technology we have we provide for everyone's basic needs and considering the unemployment rate is so high this means that we don't need to be doing nearly as much work in order to support society and provide for everyone this should be a really good thing but we have this idea that there's an unemployment crisis and that we need to create jobs the only reason that we would need to create jobs is if there was a demand for them since there's no demand for jobs they're not going to get created unless people suddenly start demanding something that they're not presently demanding to be frank though a lot of the things that people demand and a lot of the jobs that people have aren't necessary we don't really need to have telemarketers we don't really need to have politicians in my opinion we don't really need to have a lot of jobs simply because they could be replaced with technology if we had the impetus to do that we already have these self-checkout things at grocery stores why do we need grocers well why do we need people to bring us out you know I'm sure that there if we wanted to we could very easily fire everyone who's working as a grocer and replace it with technology you know maybe put a sensor on every food item or whatever charge people doesn't really matter point is we could replace those jobs if we want to but we're stuck in this economy where everyone has to have a job to provide for themselves I think that's the big problem we're facing is that not that there is a lack of jobs but there is a lack of need for jobs so imagine if in a small society maybe 100 200 people they were all growing their own food completely independent didn't drive anywhere or anything just completely on their own and self-sustaining and someone in this society invents some technology that makes it so that only half as much work is needed to be done to feed everyone so he invents the flour some kind of farming technology do do they then say once less work needs to be done that there is an unemployment crisis no they suddenly have much more free time and they can use that free time to do whatever they want they don't need to be farming anymore and we're kind of like that you know just on a much larger scale but it's like someone said that we have someone in the village said that this is a problem we need to have everyone working all the time because otherwise how will we know that you're contributing is that to a to the village so this creates a problem and it creates it makes unemployment a bad thing instead of a good thing it makes it so that everyone's in debt and there's no money to pay it off makes it so that we're attached to the idea that everyone has to work so at this point a lot of people start asking what give everyone a handout and just let if it won't be lazy I say no don't do that just reduce the amount of hours that people work pay people more so that they don't have to be working all the time for example let's say that there's a grocery store this grocery store employees like 30 people and you know a certain amount of them are stocking shelves and a certain amount are bringing people out a certain amount are you know that we've got a manager so suppose that we create this system this grocery store is going to try something new it's going to try attaching a sensor to every grocery item and then what the customer does is pick out everything they want and they go to this conveyor belts and they put all their items on the conveyor belt and it goes through this scanner that scans everything kind of like um you would if you were going through an airport security and you were bringing your you're bringing your stuff through so because of this this auto checkout function this new technology we suddenly don't need the 10 or 15 people who were ringing people out so then what you can do is you can reduce everyone's hours by like 30 or 50 percent and you can increase everyone's pay because the grocery store is still making the same amount of money it's just it needs less people working and then say you know you've got all these people stocking shelves why don't we get it why don't we make a spring loaded shelves so that we don't have to be walking around all day and making sure everything looks good then maybe you need like 5 or 10 people less to to maintain the grocery store at that point maybe only need like a few people to watch over things make sure people aren't stealing and a few people to make sure that all the stock is coming and on time and things like that but still the grocery store makes the same amount of money it just had to make this this initial expense of creating the technology putting things in place but once that's paid off and once everything's running smoothly then the grocery store still makes the same amount of money there's still a demand for food and all the things in the grocery store except you hardly need to do any work to maintain it we've got an unemployment crisis obviously and we you see the problem here and unless we're going to go back the stone Age's unless where we want to you know um go back in technology wise then we're always going to you know I have things kind of the way that we are now with a lot of people in debt and a lot of people unemployed and this all being a bad thing because no one can pay for their food and um there's no way around it because you know we don't need these people to be working so this is just one example of a job that could be pretty easily eliminated with technology it's not unconceivable today with technology that we could eliminate lots of other jobs and eliminate jobs that don't produce anything like advertising I mean unless we're willing to regress in technology this problem is going to keep presenting itself because there's going to be an unemployment right because that's what technology does it reduces the workload I think the real crisis here is one of unemployment the crisis is that were still working just as hard if not harder than we have in the past despite all the new technology we have
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