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gremlinsinc
My sincere hope is that AI and robots bring about uncoupling of society from the burden of full-time employment. I'd like to see a society where people work 25 hours some weeks, 50 others, but it's more free-lance style and all basic necessities are taken care of. People can also pursue non-paid gigs during the times they would've worked. Honestly if we can work on increasing iq's across the board and not worry about how people pay for basic necessities more people can become scientists and work towards more innovations.
tnmrnis
Before Capitalism, Medieval Peasants starved to death
informatimago
Obviously not, since they had enough surpluses to feed the lord and knights. Also, they weren't dumb enough to try to fight human made climate warming, which led to a few good centuries. On the other hand they died from cold during the small ice age.

Of course, the modern peasants can feed 99% of the population, but they are still staved to death by the Capitalist banksters. http://reinformation.tv/monde-paysan-suicides-campagnes-3949...

ignasl
"As for the modern American worker? After a year on the job, she gets an average of eight vacation days annually."

Well why they don't count in weekends? Compare apples to apples.