Touché. Except it really seems like you have been spooked by one side of a story and you just aren’t aware that this is giving you an exaggerated perspective. I happen to agree that we’re a bit fucked environmentally, I am absolutely not a climate change denier, but you need to put all these reports into context. Yes the planet is heating up, reefs are dying, sea levels are rising, and it’s all pretty economically costly. But does this all mean that taking care of the future of the economy is all for naught? It’s a slow process and more serious in some places than others. But regardless of how far we get and doomsaying aside, we are still tending towards full unemployment and beyond psychotic solutions like genocide, things like UBI will be necessary.
By the way, the vaccine article was pretty laughable, somebody issues a dare and there’s no mention whatsoever of anyone taking it up or otherwise. It’s just implied that nobody would when it would be fine if someone actually did. You’re missing tricks like these, because you’re only listening to what you want to hear and feeding your own bias. Try and stay critical and you’ll come across less hysterical.
This is not the capitalist way. We create technologies in order to remove the need to pay humans to work. Technological growth is the only significant factor in economic output growth, besides population growth.
But besides slavery and voluntary work, isn’t removing the need to pay humans to work the same as removing the need for humans to work? Unless that was your point - that the latter won’t happen and we are tending back towards slavery and or voluntary work (you mentioned going back to feudal hierarchy)? I agree that the capitalist way is to reduce expenses, i.e. reduce wages, so we are currently in the process of gradually removing pay from wage labourers and transferring it to capitalists, but the result of this will be that our economy will be reduced to a circulation of money amongst just them. How then will wage labourers continue to acquire things they need to live unless they are free or money is taxed away from capitalists and a basic income given to all the rest? UBI seems like a fairly obvious solution here.
“Decelerating? You mean bringing your car to a dead stop on the motorway?”
I know right