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« on: January 18, 2016, 06:43:40 AM »
Back around the '60's, I remember reading about how automation was going to change the world.
With all the automation going on, people were going to have so much free time they would be able to pursue their favorite leisure activities. By then, washing machines were old hat. Dishwashers were starting to become common. Factories were starting to become more automated. computers were in the early stages. Imaginations ran wild with other tasks that machines would perform for man.
Magazines had pictures of families having picnics in the park on weekdays because the father only had to work a few hours in the morning. Pictures of artists at their canvass's exclaimed that people would have time to pursue the arts. There were pictures of people traveling to exotic destinations on their many and long vacation days.
But what were they thinking? Who was going to support all these people in their leisure activities if they weren't being productive because there was no work for them to perform?
The time has now come that machines are putting large numbers of people out of work. Rather than free time, this has resulted in unemployment and poverty. So the dreamers are again dreaming that the "government" will support them. Free tuition, Free medical care, Free energy etc. But again, what are they thinking? Who do they think is going to pay for all this?