fifasy wrote:
. . . because there are so many zero hours contracts and not enough jobs for all the people applying. If there was job for almost everyone it would be better because then people would have proper choice.
I think this is a major social justice issue.
And unfortunately, it might get worse. In the youtube video "
Humans Need Not Apply," the guy talks about automation. He makes a lot out of the fact that robots right now are in the early stages of being general purpose, that there are software virtual bots, that self-driving cars have already driven hundreds of thousands of miles up and down the California coast as well as through cities, that there are currently about 3 million driving jobs in the United States, that even in the professions of medicine and law there are major aspects that can be computerized. And toward the end, he points out that the Great Depression had quote-unquote "only" 25% unemployment.
I think clearly the remedy is bold experimentation. And the way to do that is neither baby step nor giant step, but medium step by medium step. Take a medium step, see how it works out, adjust it, and take another medium step. For example, with just a little bit of tinkering, some things may work out better than we expected.