Technology is destroying jobs at a faster rate than new ones are being created, threatening up to 60% of retail jobs in the next 20 years. While technological progress was expected to reduce the need for human work, full employment is now gone. The document argues we should strive to work less and embrace a post-work society focused on leisure and fulfillment instead of resisting automation, proposing a universal basic income as an alternative.
Technology is destroying jobs at a faster rate than new ones are being created, threatening up to 60% of retail jobs in the next 20 years. While technological progress was expected to reduce the need for human work, full employment is now gone. The document argues we should strive to work less and embrace a post-work society focused on leisure and fulfillment instead of resisting automation, proposing a universal basic income as an alternative.
Technology is destroying jobs at a faster rate than new ones are being created, threatening up to 60% of retail jobs in the next 20 years. While technological progress was expected to reduce the need for human work, full employment is now gone. The document argues we should strive to work less and embrace a post-work society focused on leisure and fulfillment instead of resisting automation, proposing a universal basic income as an alternative.
Doc 2 We should be striving to work less, not toiling until we drop
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Job destruction may mean Technology is still Alternative society may be
job creation destroying more jobs than conceived → end of work- → According to Keynes, it is creating: threat (60% centered society Life needn’t revolve around technological progress of retail jobs might be work would mean less need for automated in the next 20 Owen Jones (relying on human work but in fact it years) researchers’ work) advocates often leads to new jobs being Full-employment to shift focus from work to created definitively gone leisure and personal fulfiment Ex: advent of the PC (that would be placed at the enabled creation of 1500 core of modern life) new types of jobs → Instead of resisting against automation, why not automate the entire society? Universal Basic Income