I was reading John Cage's "A Year From Monday", and in this
(page 56)
he mentioned a U.S. gov't commission (maybe?) called the "Committee of eight on Automation, Economics and Employment", a group which was apparently formed to "consider whether U.S. society should be geared for employment or unemployment voted six to two in favor of employment."
This has perplexed me for a few years now. Does anybody have any information on this group?
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:57 am
DigitalAtheist wrote:
Infidel people of the earth:
I was reading John Cage's "A Year From Monday", and in this
(page 56)
he mentioned a U.S. gov't commission (maybe?) called the "Committee of eight on Automation, Economics and Employment", a group which was apparently formed to "consider whether U.S. society should be geared for employment or unemployment voted six to two in favor of employment."
This has perplexed me for a few years now. Does anybody have any information on this group?
Wooo... this is very interesting. Under our current economic model, I'm not surprised that a high percentage voted for employment. However, I'm interested in why the 2 voted against it. Do they see what's coming? Do they too see a world where human labor will mostly become unnecessary? Do they understand the quandary high levels of automation places upon our current systems? If we obtain the ability to automate nearly all human labor, how then do we compensate people so they can purchase things? Do we completely abandon the compensation model?
Oh... I don't have any information on the group, but I'm going to look into it.
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