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How Can a Society Achieve Almost Full Employment in a capitalist System ?

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Yamantau · 04/10/2024 02:39

Hey everyone, after reading many threads i thought id consder my own thread.

I've been thinking a lot about the idea of full employment and how challenging it is in today’s profit-driven economy. With the rise of AI and automation, it seems like we’re at a crossroads where many traditional jobs are being replaced, leaving a significant portion of the workforce feeling surplus to requirements.

Because overall it seems people are only useful if a company can generate x profits but then there comes a point where its uneconomical to have the whole or majority of the workforce employed espcially when how are profits being generated when also people dont need x services etc there seems to be only so much profits to be made so they what exactly does one do with the overall population ?

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User3456 · 05/10/2024 17:58

Well they need to do things about the healthcare system, climate change and amount of preventable infections doing the rounds if they want the majority in employment.
The rate we're going we will all be too sick or disabled, or dealing with regular disasters to be able to be a benefit to the economy.

MetalGearSystem · 11/10/2024 02:37

saltinesandcoffeecups · 05/10/2024 17:50

Nope I don’t expect any utopia… as long as humans are involved it’s impossible.

People are messy, lazy, egotistical, spiteful, stupid, jealous, greedy, damaged, predatory, and everything else. On the other hand they are generous, smart, hopeful, hard working, loving, and everything else.

Utopia is not possible with people. The best we can hope for is balance.

ETA; I think your sarcasm detector might be broken 🙂

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good points

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