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floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 year agoOne difficulty with that is that the way we organize economies currently depends on having a working-age population that is large enough to support the non-working population. When you have far fewer workers than retired people you start having problems. I don’t know what the answer to that is, but it’s another instance of how any plan to seriously address climate change tends to require deep changes to how we run society.
currently depends on having a working-age population that is large enough to support the non-working population
This is only a problem if production does not increase dramatically, as it has for the last century. The reason it feels like there are insufficient working people is because parasites siphon from the resource distribution between more and more productive workers and their non working counterparts
There is a lot of things wrong on how we organize the economy.
If we are going to change that we may as well change it good.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
We already have far more people than necessary jobs. One person with modern trchnology can produce way, way more than one person could even just a century ago.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not about necessary jobs, it’s about paying into social security / pensions.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
If the jobs aren’t necessary, then surely there’s a way to organize society without those jobs existing.
This is the fundamental argument behind universal basic income.
As to the question of how to fund stuff like pensions or UBI without everyone working, the answer is simply to tax those who are working more, especially those making huge amounts of money.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sure, but that’s not relevant to the “necessary jobs” thing you brought up.