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Do you agree that the new technology and innovations'll lead us to the unemployment & eventually to Communism?

If we don't accept Communism the half of the American and world's population will be unemployed soon (estimated 15-20 years or even sooner). So Communism as an economic system is the only way for us humans to survive where we all work for free and get free services and goods according to everyone's job, not for money. Moderation in consumtion and production is the way to survival. If you don't believe me ask scientists. So the real threat to us is not the global warming but the global unemployment. Agree?

Public Comments

1. No people said that 50 years ago and here we all are
2. Unemployment maybe, communism no. There is even less employment and money in communism.
3. Communism in the USA. No I do not agree. I understand your argument but do not foresee that happening in the USA.
4. I would prefer we went the opposite route and allowed Nature to ween people off their materialism by necessity of survival.
5. High unemployment has never happened before?
6. Where on earth did you come up with this scenario? I don't think you even know what communism is. Many people in the U.S. think universal health care is communism. Do some research and learn. I don't intend this to be rude, you are just so far off base to respond otherwise.
7. Maybe in the far future, but not any time soon. I agree that US unemployment won't improve, but global employment should rise with the continued shifting of all manufacturing to third world countries.
8. New technology and innovations create new jobs by improving productivity and efficiency throughout an economic system. And then there is the fine prospect of harvesting rice in North Korea.
9. I think environmental collapse is still a serious threat. We have many examples of environmental catastrophe and mass extinction in the geologic record. A free capitalistic economic system doesn't seem to be sustainable either, it wastes too much resource too fast on useless stuff, and with a disregard for environmental degradation. I think we can have a system that isn't completely capitalist and isn't completely communist and is democratic. Moderation in our social structure is important.
10. Technological expansion doesn't lead to unemployment ... it leads to new industries and more innovation. When the assembly line was invented the same kind of people predicted the eventual eradication of labor. When the computer was invented these people thought the human mind would eventually be insufficient to compete against computers. When robots were introduced to manufacturing, these people said everyone would lose their jobs. What happened? Efficiency drove manpower reductions, and people did lose their jobs ... temporarily. At the same time, fresh capital came into the system and the economy expanded, creating more jobs in other industries and making other products. The same thing happens every time there's a major technological push. The real threat to members of the workforce is government and unions ... which create unsustainable conditions that ultimately drive companies out of business or overseas. Global warming doesn't exist. El Nino exists. The sun exists. Snow exists. Ice exists. Summer exists. The supposed "experts" and "scientists" who say it does can't even support their hypotheses with any usable data. It's all speculation based on a political agenda. There's no such thing as "moderation in consumption." And Communism has failed in every attempt because it cannot succeed. If everyone works for free, who provides the free services and goods? We all provide them for each other? What if my job is harder than yours? Do I get more of your product or service than you get of mine? What if I'm lazy and don't do anything? Do I get nothing? This is called the "free-rider problem." It's ultimately the reason why communism fails. It says that individuals who can get away with doing nothing will do nothing. How do you enforce everyone actually working? That requires an authority. Who is that authority? Government? A dictator? What happens if you don't want to work for free? What if you have an independent spirit and are more creative or intelligent than other people? Do you have to settle for what everyone else has? Is that equality? Equal misery? That's what communism really is ... equality in misery. Equality in servitude. That's why communism has never existed on this planet beyond small communes of a couple dozen people. Communism always fails at the point of Socialism, because communism is unsustainable. Communism can only produce what it needs to produce, not what it wants to produce. Communism never drove innovation. The reason the USSR ultimately failed is because it could not keep up with the rest of the world (especially the US). Our economy grows. It gets bigger and stronger over time. Socialist nations have shrinking economies. This is the fiscal nature of freedom. An institution free to produce what it wants will produce what it needs and more. It produce enough to sell beyond it's constituency and it's economy will grow ... because it is free to. Moderation in consumption is another way of saying don't buy so much ... but what if I can afford it? Then my consumption makes your job possible and probably someone else's as well. Sure, it's bad if I consume beyond my means, but not if I consume within them. Setting arbitrary consumption limits won't help anything, it will only stifle the capital that drives enterprise. Moderation in production happens naturally. If I make so much I can't sell it all, my company fails and I stop producing altogether. That requires no artificial controls. I'm glad you're reading about political thought and institutions, but look around. Do you really want to live in 1960s USSR?
11. If you sit on your can and let technology take your job, then yeah, you will be unemployed. If technology takes your job away, take advantage of your unemployment department and get re-trained by your state. If that's available in your state. In Massachusetts, if you're unemployed, the state will pay for your training. If you can't keep up with innovations created by technology, then people will certainly be left behind. But this country will never become communist.