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Originally Posted by basilsands
If we all want to live comfortable middle class lives, somebody has to do the work to keep the infrastructure up. If it's not our children it will be someone else's...probably someone we did not invite in.
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Or we need to develop technology that does work formerly done by people, and adjust our economies so that we don't punish people for not doing work that no longer needs human participation.
The post office could be cut down quite a bit more than it is, by encouraging more use of email... but for that to be a useful change, current postal workers need to be something other than "unemployed because their jobs have become obsolete." And the current postal system would have to change quite a bit to allow it to still deliver packages if it's not delivering letters every day.