From: j3r@example.net   
      
   In  Sourcerer    
   wrote:   
   > Ten years ago, in that thread, they thought the unemployment problem   
   > was limited to people with 'low skill' levels, but now it is everybody.   
      
   Indeed, the unemployment problem is that unemployment is a problem. The French   
   caught onto this quickly (too quickly?), and decided to reduce the work week,   
   this forcing their working populace to be less employed.   
      
   The problem is, as long as we're stuck on this ball of rock, there will never   
   be an end to scarcity. (Finite land/air/water and all that. The French are   
   actually doing surprisingly well, with their high unemployment and happy,   
   under-stressed people. I    
   suspect that this is mostly because of the ultra-stressed people who work and   
   spend like Americans. Really, though, humanity is not ready for a world where   
   working is something you do when you feel like it. Where there is scarcity,   
   thee will be an    
   unrelenting pressure driving down short-term costs. Thus first-worlders will   
   find 3rd worlders doing their jobs, and 3rd worlders will find machines doing   
   their jobs. It'll end when there is no 1st or 3rd world, and thus nowhere   
   cheaper to send the jobs.   
      
   j3r   
      
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