No, not the movie.
Not yet.
Equilibrium of production versus consumption.
Production equals consumption in an idealized economy. Both are bound by finite time. If production increases, consumption must increase, too. Ergo, time spent on production must fall, which is what happened during the last two depressionary eras. 1873-1897 and 1930-1940. I'm fairly sure that AI is the last straw which breaks the forty-hour workweek, although I've anticipated it for quite some time now.
UBI (universal basic income) is a dysfunctional attempt by capitalists to resist equilibrium. A better fix is redistribution of remaining work across the entire workforce. Income stays bound to work and creates more potential customers. During the 1930s, governments mandated shorter workweeks and banned child labor which forced a return to equilibrium.
Henry Ford figured this out one hundred years ago.
Was he smarter than Gates, Buffet, Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk?
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