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Originally Posted by jammies
Of course one change is not going to solve a huge, complex and evolving problem. I think it has a chance of mitigating the problem, though, and of being a small part of a general solution - there will come a day when this issue of the unskilled and semi-skilled being seen as superfluous to the economy will become critical. Anything done to even slightly lessen the impact of that coming change has to be contemplated.
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Once somewhere in the neighbourhood 50 per cent of people have no secure employment that provides for their needs because their skills aren't necessary, we'll have to make a fundamental decision:
The remainder of society (the 20 per cent who are well off and the 30 per cent who scramble desperately to get into that group) can cut themselves off from the mob entirely. Gated communities, private schools, private hospitals, no-go zones - the whole shebang. Or we recognize that we need to provide some sort of living wage to all people, if only to keep our consumer market economy running.