Quote from: giantdragon on December 06, 2013, 08:35:57 PM

Quote from: Misesian on December 06, 2013, 08:01:17 PM

when you say machines are going to take over the jobs, yes maybe the ones today but that's because we're becoming more productive and as humans advance new industries start to form. Those who anticipate where the new demand will be are the ones who start it off, the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of the world, extraordinary humans unlike you and I, so just because you can't think of where the jobs are gonna come from in the future doesn't mean there aren't gonna be any because if you did know where the jobs were gonna come from you'd probably become very rich.

There are no doubts new industries will appear and new jobs created, but the problem is the number of jobs created is less than destroyed. This trend become very clear now!

why are we still measuring wealth by the amount of jobs there are available, rather than measuring wealth by the amount of commodities that are available divided by the amount of people in the world?

I'm not saying we shouldn't work, that'd be selfish and stupid, i'm just saying that having to work 'just because' is even more stupid.

especially if the feds get to print unlimited amounts of dollars while the common people have to fight for scraps.

There's nothing wrong with machines taking our jobs, as long as society at large benefits from it, which is currently not the case.