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Laboring by the human race will someday be extinct. We've been working on eliminating the need for employment since the start of thinking.

All our creativity has been constantly moving in this direction throughout the ages of mankind. We invent either so we can loaf or to take what somebody else's labor has produced so we don't have to produce it. Since the start of the industrial revolution we have been inventing ways to eliminate the human in production. We're reaching a point to where human labor will someday, and that day may not be far away, will no longer be necessary. What do we do with our time then? What will happen to all the humanoids that never opted into being human? They only know how to act like animals: behaving according to primitive drives without regard for human qualities.
Our abundance of food has produced overpopulation which is the sacred cow of any discussion. It is very rarely approached except to try to conceive of ways to produce more supply rather than reducing the demand. Is it better to have billions of people on a crowed planet or less enjoying the bounties of nature without the crowding and shortages?
As smart as we are it takes us a long collective time to figure these basic things out. We have to stop thinking just in terms of keeping as many humans alive as possible to planned parenthood for the planet basing our decisions in the framework of this tiny speck of dust in the void.

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    Krisztián Pintér 200+

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    Jul 29 2012: if it was true, majority would not work today. in the beginning of time, everyone worked on food production. as technology got more advanced, many people left agriculture, and started doing other things, and industry was born. but as technology continued to progress, less and less people were needed in the factories. so people moved to offices, and either started to work on managing/organizing production, or they started providing services which have never existed before. this will continue. as the jobs that exist today gets automatized, other kinds of jobs emerge.

    one can imagine it as a list of possible activities, the most important at the top. we assign people for the jobs until we run out of people, any jobs on the list below that will not be done. we don't have the resources to do them. but as jobs gets automatized, people freed up, and we can assign them to the next jobs on the list.

    the list is endless, limited only by our imagination how can we make our lives even better, more interesting, entertaining or otherwise complete. for this reason we can never run out of jobs.

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