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Arogavox Arogavox 21 juin 2019 15:10

 « La mise au travail a été alors présentée comme la solution à la disparition de la misère. »

_ Et aujourd’hui, pour éviter la misère, on l’euthanasie (Revenu universel d’activité > pas de revenu si pas d’activité, soit : réduction active et consciente de l’espérance de vie pour tuer la misère !)

Une tout autre perspective a pourtant été montrée, depuis plus d’un siècle par un logicien célèbre :

Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day.
Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins : pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price.

In a sensible world, everybody concerned in the manufacturing of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before.

But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work.
There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked.
In this way, it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness.

Can anything more insane be imagined ?


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