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This means that on a societal level we will probably implement some kind of artificial scarcity or even make belief work.

The later is in a way already happening just to keep unemployed people occupied:

Have a look at Potemkin economy:

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/frances-potemkin-econo...

> Candelia is one of a number of so-called “Potemkin” companies operating in France.

> Everything about these entities is imaginary from the customers, to the supply chain, to the banks, to the “wages” employees receive and while the idea used to be that the creation of a “parallel economic universe” would help to train the jobless and prepare them for real employment sometime in the future, these “occupations” are now serving simply as way for the out-of-work to suspend reality for eight hours a day

Society fears a large unoccupied class. Whether that fear is warranted or not is a different thing.

parent 77pt77 9 years ago

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