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> "A rational society at our current stage of development would be celebrating job destruction, not creation." Destruction of jobs in our current society would
by skate22 8y ago
> "A rational society at our current stage of development would be celebrating job destruction, not creation."
Destruction of jobs in our current society would mean bad things for many people.
I understand what you were going for, but society is not at that point yet imo
- annabellish 8y agoOur current society is definitely not rational, which I inferred as the point. Our economic system is a good 80% complete nonsense, where we're essentially playing a very complicated and meaningless game with ourselves, except one with meaningful consequences for real people.
- that_jojo 8y agoYou're making me so happy, because the most frustrating thing for me is that, with how tied up in personal and cultural identity and self-worth it all is, few people are willing to admit or recognize this. Economy, at its core, is a network of transaction predicated on value. Value, at its core, is nothing more than a perception.