Quote Originally Posted by Spartiate View Post
Is this really an issue? Both automation and the world's population have been steadily increasing for over a century, but overall unemployment rates haven't. I'm not sure what mechanism allows that.
As well as what PS just mentioned, with banal crap, there is also retail and hospitality.
Because there are more people, so those jobs are increasing so those people can also buy more stuff.

So basically more and more humans are simply feeding and clothing each other. More people are
also selling others banal crap, in the non-clothing retail.

I wonder if they'll ever realise they could just be feeding themselves.