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It was described as a quick and easy read, an essay discussing the potential for automation to eliminate the need for work by 2030, leading to a flourishing of arts and relationships. However, the podcasters noted flaws in Keynes' argument regarding wealth distribution.
he is an economist he was an economist liberal economist and he wrote back in 1930 an essay called economic possibilities of our grandchildren and it's actually like a quick easy read.
— Episode: Jobs of Bygone Eras
Episode: Jobs of Bygone Eras
It was described as a quick and easy read, an essay discussing the potential for automation to eliminate the need for work by 2030, leading to a flourishing of arts and relationships. However, the podcasters noted flaws in Keynes' argument regarding wealth distribution.
he is an economist he was an economist liberal economist and he wrote back in 1930 an essay called economic possibilities of our grandchildren and it's actually like a quick easy read.
a hundred years hence so by 2030 we will have done away with work will have automated basically every process you can think of and humans will be totally out of work and he said that will be a really good thing because we will still be generating wealth but we just won't have to work so people will start writing bad poetry and painting terrible paintings and eventually we'll get better and better and there'll be like a big blooming of the arts and of like interpersonal relationships and things like that and we'll just be able to hang out and chill
if you if you're going to do this you kind of have to figure out a way to distribute the wealthy evenly or else you just end up with the people who own the machines or the ones who get wealthy and everybody else is just out of work