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发帖数: 29846 | 1 No one knows how this will play out.
Regardless, paying people to do nothing, so that people can pursue personal
interests is certainly not the answer.
Such actions would encourage people to have more kids for which there are no
jobs. That’s clearly an unsustainable model.
If technology does not create jobs, then war is a distinct possibility.
But over the long haul, technology has always created jobs. Why is it
different this time?
Unbridled Capitalism Not the Problem
Unbridled capitalism is not the problem. Some will even ask “when has it
been tried?”
Yet, the advances in technology that capitalism has provided gives us more
leisure time than ever before, despite increasing government interference in
the free markets.
We can do more things in more places than any generation in history. We can
fly or drive to the Grand Canyon to hike; we can communicate with nearly
anyone in the world using Skype, for free; we live longer despite eating
unhealthy.
All of these things are because of capitalism, not communism, not socialism.
Living Wages and Inflation
If you hand out a living wage for doing nothing, the amount it takes will
escalate rapidly.
Central bank actions are the key problem. They are hell bent on inflation.
Technology is inherently deflationary. People benefit from falling prices,
not rising prices.
Thanks to the increased productivity that stems from technology (which in
turn stems from capitalism), people today live like kings compared to a few
generations ago.
Not only that, but US citizens live twice as long as they did in 1850.
Forced minimum wage hikes and central banks actions fight overwhelming
technological forces.
Hundreds of affordable housing programs did anything but make houses
more affordable.
Student loan programs made debt slaves out of students while increasing
the cost of education.
Things would cost a lot less and there would be a lot less debt were it
nor for the Fed and governments.
Virtually everything government touches increases costs.
The “living wage” would be much, much lower if government and the Fed got
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