RE: If you could, would you live forever?
04-05-2013, 10:37 AM
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But don't tell be being a carpenter or plasterer is brainless.
Then there are some things that simply need human control.
Some things are hard or dangerous when there is no human controlling it.
Something else to think about: some people like low-educated jobs. Why it is wrong to let them have those jobs? If they enjoy working as a baker, a telephone sanitizer, etc.
As for the underpaid portion, we should internationally make sure companies cannot hire workers from other countries cheaper than a lowest legal price in the country they are going to work in. Something like that. This is not really worked on and I would like to see that change.
(04-04-2013, 04:18 PM)Mythee Wrote: »Regarding the matter of reproduction, I'm of the rare opinion that everyone should stop reproducing until all of the orphans are adopted.I have to say I agree with you here. It would not be a bad idea at all.
The Earth has enough humans, and not enough parents for the children already here. I don't understand how a couple can be like: Oh hey there's a whole ton of babies that don't have parents in this town that are going to grow up in shitty conditions and probably have shitty lives and never feel loved and feel so alone, but yeah let's just ignore that whole thing and make a new baby!
(04-04-2013, 04:18 PM)Mythee Wrote: »As for hard, brainless work that is so in demand for more laborers: I would rather not society depend on that, and that people that would work in horrible conditions for low pay and die early because of some mining-related disease or whatever would instead run into the wild and live off hunting and a vegetable garden. I don't think that kind of massive system of suffering should be an accepted part of humanity, and we should fight it with everything we have. Hopefully automate/robotize things as much as possible on that end. We're making good progress on that in some places.As a matter of fact society does depend on it. Not that it is necessarily brainless, underpaid and unsafe. Those things are being worked on, although I would like to see they are being worked on harder.
But don't tell be being a carpenter or plasterer is brainless.
Then there are some things that simply need human control.
Some things are hard or dangerous when there is no human controlling it.
Something else to think about: some people like low-educated jobs. Why it is wrong to let them have those jobs? If they enjoy working as a baker, a telephone sanitizer, etc.
As for the underpaid portion, we should internationally make sure companies cannot hire workers from other countries cheaper than a lowest legal price in the country they are going to work in. Something like that. This is not really worked on and I would like to see that change.