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What would society look like if it wasn't organized around jobs?
Assume that the unemployment rate is only going to increase due to technology automating many tasks that used to be performed manually. Also assume that modern society is organized around employment and the jobs that people hold. If jobs become obsolete for a meaningful percentage of the population, how will society organize itself?
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Interesting question, Scott.
If the normal approach to employment becomes more obsolete, at least in the US, it could foster a great deal of new innovation in our country, something we desperately need to stay competitive.
But your question states your assumption that society will need to reorganize. Our approach to health insurance, collecting taxes, determining credit-worthiness, etc. are all heavily dependent on an employee/employer relationship. Where we are able to focus services (and payment collection) on groups, we'll need to transition to 1-to-1 approaches. (e.g., instead of offering group plans for health insurance, individual coverage will need to become the norm). This complicates things for businesses not used to dealing directly with consumers.
Your question is so broad, there are hundreds of answers. I look forward to reading other observations from the community.
Sara Horowitz is writing some articles for The Atlantic on this topic. Here is a link to find them: https://be.freelancersunion.org/blog/?p=1373
It wouldn't be a society. Civilizations come together to ease the creation of wealth and value. if we're not busy doing that, for whatever reason that motivates us as individuals, then what would we spend our time on? Waiting for the next wagon to roll by so we can steal whatever it might hold? Don't laugh; that was the norm throughout much of our history and still is among certain groups (although today these folks phish, hack, and otherwise commit fraud).
Work gets a bad rap, and perhaps it should in many contexts. But without it, we have no society at all.
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