Zero Work Theory Part-II ZWT-II: Future Human Occupations

The Unprecedented Technological Growth

The unprecedented growth in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Robots, has become the most important topic in the global economic forums, business circles. Prominent business forecast agencies, research analyst predict major technology disruption, most jobs that exists today will disappear in the next decades. The HR work force  specialist maintain even though much of the jobs will be displace in the coming decades   there will be many more or enough new jobs will be created to replace the old ones. However, no one quite sure, which sectors will create enough  new jobs, to keep the unemployment rate at around the present acceptable level. The science and technology progressing in leaf and bound called as exponential growth.

Autonomous self-driving cars/vehicles licensed on the streets by the Government, seems to be the torch bearer signalling the paradigm shift of AI now transcending into the SERVICE SECTOR. Transportation industry heralding this transformation.  Even though, the AI entered into the services sector  like warehouses, retail and sales  market before the autonomous cars did, nevertheless the driverless cars on the streets mostly catches the public attention. Intelligent Chabot’s entering people’s homes in larger numbers. The Amazon warehouses, online stores, supermarket giants Wal-Mart, McDonalds employing robots in their outlets which can replace cashiers salesperson, manager positions. Industries, businesses all over the world especially in China’s shedding human jobs alarmingly in large numbers. Most importantly the highly paid cognitive human intelligent jobs like doctor, lawyer, accountants teachers  are equally have become fertile ground of AI automation.  IoT’s, Chabot, Sophia, Sexbots, Humanoid robots becoming reality. The technologically progressive minded companies today pride themselves primarily called as the AI companies and propose Universal Basic Income to alleviate any public fear about the future massive Technological Unemployment

Technological Unemployment 2020. 

When we talk about the Technological Unemployment  we mainly think about the AI robot automation but other science and technological fields like Bio-Tech  and Nano tech may eliminate far larger number of jobs. For example the lab grown cell cultured or plant based alternative meat products bio-tech start-up who like to call themselves as Clean Meat companies have stated to entering the traditional meat and dairy industry estimated to having US$50 trillion worth globally. The first beef burger created in 2013 was cost $375,000, Now, the price has dropped drastically to $30 per pound. The prices expected to go down around  $3  by the year 2025 or earlier. The traditional farm produce industry employs hundreds of million workers and most of these jobs are at risk of closing. The lab cell cultured biotech food is not limited only to meat but also can be extend into milk, egg, nuts, fruits and vegetables. Therefore,  the impact of biotech in human job elimination  perhaps far greater than the once could have imagined.

Experts claim that the AI will create enough or more jobs as it happened in the history before.  Their basic argument is that the progress in the technology always created new jobs as proven by the Industrial Revolution. However, they miss a crucial point. There always been ONLY three major Job sectors since human civilization, Agriculture, Manufacturing and the Service sector. Agriculture occupied greatest portion of the labor market, Manufacturing and Service occupied very less for hundreds thousands of years. The industrial revolution of the 18^th century changed everything, on its way, it gradually eliminated the need of most of the human labor in the Agricultural Sector but  did not create any new Job sector, It only shifted most of its jobs into manufacturing sector  also stimulating the growth of the service sector. As the  industrial revolution reached its advanced stage around 20^th century it pushed most of the jobs both from agriculture and manufacturing sector transferring all of it into the  Service sector.

Further down 21^st century today, the rapidly advancing AI revolution  now, have started flushing out  the human jobs from its last remaining resort called Service sectors. There will be no new employment sector for the humans jobs to go.  The Zero Work Theory (ZWT) predicts that 2020 can become marked as the year of INFLECTION of various science and technology including the Quantum computing and 5G. All these can make the TIPPING POINT in the unemployment figures, after which  human society will start witnessing  severe impact of the exponential AI Technological growth, the unemployment will start to rise from its present 4 to 5 per cent,  initially it may be in single digits, but as we enter the third decade, the unemployment percentage may rise dramatically even up to 50%, worldwide.

HUMAN LABOR  WILL SOON BECOM REDUNDANT

The likelihood of losing tens of MILLIONS of jobs to AI automation around the world in the coming decades is real, believe it or not. The ZWT proclaims that if we are to cope with this future Technological Unemployment, we need new kinds of occupations for those people, or a completely new perspective of human purpose in life. THE HUMAN LABOR LIKELY TO BECOME REDUNDANT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. Instead of a dystopian Sci-fi vision of chaos and destruction, we need to look forward optimistically to a society of affluence and abundance  of goods and services WITHOUT THE NEED OF HUMAN LABOR to produce them . UNFORTUNATELY HOWEVER, WHEN THE ZERO WORK THEORY (ZWT) WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IT IN 1981, EXPERTS AT THAT TIME, DISMISSED IT WITHOUT A SECOND GLANCE. Now is the time to revisit ZWT!

The ZWT Historical Perspective on HUMAN WORK or LABOR

The historical PERSPECTIVE of the Zero Work Theory, on the HUMAN WORK Or LABOR basically contradicts from those who glorify the human work or labor as the provider of self-identity, dignity, respect  meaning, purpose  and everything good for human beings in their life. Ironically, both the Capitalist as well the Communists somehow share this same vision that includes most of today’s leading experts and social pundits. They don’t accept the prospect of human labor getting redundant by the new technology is instead fallaciously argue that the same new technology will create abundance of new jobs for the humans to work side by side with the robots, at least for the foreseeable future.

However, the Zero Work Theory  basically proclaims that human-labor, originally imposed by nature on them in order to obtain their means of subsidence (lively hood, wages), which is the ROOT CAUSE OF HUMAN EXPLOITATION and most of the evils that humankind have been undergoing so far in the history. In the past, the progress in science and technology that increased labor productivity has helped the working class to get  gradual reduction in working hours in the day or week and shall continue to do so. The end-game of this reduction in work should be the ZERO WORK DAY. The progress in the field of science and technology ultimately will make THE HUMAN WORK, OBSOLETE OR REDUNDANT and should be completely abolished sooner than later. It is the best thing for the human society to happen. In the future humankind will become FREE from the compulsion and the drudgery of their work-labor-slavery. Thereby, establishing a new equitable income distribution egalitarian socio-economic system in which all human needs, wants, comforts, and luxuries should be made available, equally free or affordable for everyone.

On the other hand, futurist pundits envisage that the “TECHNOLOGICAL-UNEMPLOYMENT” that has been forecasted; is A NEGATIVE OUTCOME OF TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS. Owning to their Capitalist and Communist ideologies which virtues  human labor as the necessary part humans happiness, dignity, identify giving purpose and meaning to human life. Most important of all to run the economy and create wealth, affluence and abundance in society. They cannot imagine that the same human labor compulsion can be the root-cause of exploitation resulting in all evils in the society, therefore, needs to be completely abolished and most importantly the progress in the science and technology allows humans to actives all of it. On the contrary they argue, to counter the technological unemployment society needs to create more labor or employment opportunities,  with some innovative entrepreneurship, inventing completely new types of jobs, higher education and retraining workers for the new employment, also by providing a substitute income, commonly known as Universal Basic Income (UBI).

ZWT, very much supports UBI as an early manifestation of the  ZWT. However, its  vision of  UBI is somewhat differs from mainstream UBI so it likes to call it as Progressive or Equitable Basic Income .  It views future “Technological Unemployment”,  AS THE POSITIVE OUTCOME of the technological progress, and welcomes it. On the other hand the future pundits even while they fully support the UBI still view the Technological Unemployment  as the NEGATIVE OUTCOME;  therefore, UBI is needed as a remedy, mainly to lift people above the poverty or to prevent more falling below the poverty line, due to widening of the income gap.

Universal Basic Income(UBI)

The general public today, is not yet prepared to accept UBI replacing employment. Many express deep anxiety of losing employment, irrespective of UBI. They still believe that losing a job means the loss of self-identity, dignity and life purpose. They have been misled to believe that all of humanity exists simply to work or provide service to others. In this worldview, having no work jobs to do make people lazy they lose meaning in life, they should have no purpose in life other than looking for a new servitude or jobs.

A primary task for ZWT is to make the public understand UBI, to make them aware that accepting UBI is the beginning of the emancipation of humankind from the drudgery of labour, wage-slavery. In the coming decades, the human race will enter a new era of abundance. The main occupation of humankind in the future, should be the fulfilment of human needs, wants, comforts and luxuries. Without the burden of work, all kinds of entertainment and pleasure can be had by all. We need to prepare the public to be conscious of this future.

The Predication Of Human Future In The Past.

In the past human history wise men, innovative future thinkers, scientists, and philosophers predicted the way that humans would live in the future; whether it is ON EARTH OR IN HEAVEN. In only since the last century, as our society has been progressed in science and technology, the predictions of the future have reflected this focus. Since the second half of the 19^th century predictions of a “Brave New World” have become dominant. As Socialism, Communism and Fascism rose and fell, the electoral democracy became more reliable or acceptable. Our view of the future reflected these real influences.

Since second half of the 20^th century, new social theories were fuelled by technological progress and social influences like feminism and the New World Order. In the 1980’s, a new vision of our future reflected the unfolding of the cybernetic revolution:  nanotechnology, 3D printing, and quantum computers.

As we entering the last part of second decade of the 21^st century, we see a new breed of future pundits who predict massive Technological Unemployment in the future but at the same time they argue the new technology will create new jobs  to replace all the old one. Prominent scientists, academics, IT professionals, Silicon Valley billionaires, mainstream magazines and publications trying to move towards  this consensus view of the future. Human workers and the AI robots harmoniously co-exist in the future industries. Yet, while many thinkers see the same problems, none offer a clear vision or plan on what kind of work,  job or occupation most of the human population or the “common man” will be engaged in their day to day life in  coming decades.

Futurists Not Yet Prepared  For The Common Man’s Future.

Futurists predict that new technology will create new jobs, replacing those lost to “Technological-Unemployment”.  They argue, “65% of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in completely new job types that don't yet exist”. What these jobs are, though, is unclear. Rather than an analysis of the economy or arising trends in the workforce, it seems these new employment opportunities predictions are based on little more than hope.

The experts argue that robots will merely replace simple, unskilled labor, or the repetitive predictive work however, the technology cannot replace creative jobs (knowledge work). Surprisingly, however, the jobs of physicians, surgeon, nursing, lawyer, journalist, even the teachers, musicians, which we assumed to be creative, are already being performed in limited ways by robots and artificial intelligence. In the coming decades, robots will expand the extent of their work in these areas. All too quickly, they are likely to take over most of these jobs.

The fundamental question now before us is; Are there new jobs or occupations that can be performed by the majority of people (relatively unskilled, uneducated), that will exist in sufficient numbers, and cannot be taken over by robots in  the coming years? In other words, will there emerge some new needs, wants and demands from humans that CANNOT be SERVICED and fulfilled by the robots?

Experts have not been able to clearly identify such occupations so far. In the past, progress in science and technology always led to new jobs therefore the logical view is; if it happened in the past, it will be repeated again.” Experts and politicians are not daring to think outside of the box, with which their  ideals of Politically Correctness does not agree.

IN 1981, WHEN I PROPOSED REDUCTION IN WORKING HOURS, ZERO WORK THEORY FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE; ALMOST ALL OF THOSE EXPERT PUNDITS AT THAT TIME WOULD HAD DISMISSED IT WITHOUT A SECOND GLANCE.NOW I THINK THE SAME WILL HAPPEN TODAY TO THIS  ZWT-II, WHICH PROPOSES; ALL KINDS OF ENTERTAINMENT AND PLEASURES WILL BECOME THE MAIN OCCUPATION OF THE COMMON MAN IN THE COMING ZERO WORK SOCIETY, PRECEDED BY THE UBI LED SOCIO-ECONOMIC POLITICAL REVOLUTION.

Future Human Occupations

How can the common people all permanently receiving the UBI will manage to spend their lives without a job or employment in the Zero Work Society? The optimistic answer could be they will spend most of their entire life in full of entertainment and festivities all day long, all their life, if they like it in that way. However, futurists cringe at this idea thinking it makes the common people damn lazy, everybody leisurely sitting at home watching cable TV like couch potatoes or browsing the internet or engaged in pleasure activities, isn’t an image of the ideal future.

In the future pundits’ crystal balls, the future is very cloudy for the common people. Therefore, instead of envisioning the kind of day to day job or occupations of common people for the NEXT TWENTY TO THIRTY YEARS, they suddenly jump to the “Star Wars” like imagination of how the elite will live in the NEXT HUNDRED TO TWO HUNDRED YEARS. Going to Moon or Mars (Planetary travel) they think as the most pleasurable (profitable) activity that their humans will be occupied in the future. They foresee the abundance of energy, combined with super-materials, leading to the creation of Mega cities. The educated elite that today live in million dollar condominiums will live in even taller buildings, with automated homes and robots serving their every need. The wealthy will have flying cars, travelling into the outer space, colonize other planets, engaged in mind-expanding Transhumanism and enter the Singularity.

Yet, they will still have time to ponder over how the ordinary people will spend their day to day life time. Most, probably will work in some kind of jobs which pays them a good salary instead of merely wasting their time watching too much TV and paying the bills with their UBI. The reminder comes following  our Sci-Fi movies  projecting a dystopian future for the common people that they should be afraid of eternally. THE POLITICALLY CORRECT ‘FUTURE PUNDITS DON’T SEE THINGS WHEN THEIR SALARIES DEPEND ON NOT SEEING IT.

This scenario, clearly illogical and prejudiced, is why the ZW Theory makes it a primary task to raise awareness of the coming joblessness and help society accept the UBI, this is the beginning of emancipation of human race from the drudgery of labour, wage-slavery. We should prepare the public for this future. Human society must undergo radical economic, political, and cultural change before it can settle in with an equitable UBI.

UBI Will Lead To  Profound Socio-Economic Change:  Political REVOLUTION

As the world nations start to face growing Technological Unemployment, they will be compelled to implement some or the other kind of UBI/PBI programs. It will make a large number of people to abandon their meaningless jobs resulting in great increase in wages and automation.  The majority will eventually depend on UBI as the main source of their income. This provides great opportunity of FREE TIME for the majority population across the globe. One of the primary reasons for political non-participation MAINLY due to lack of time, will go away, more and more people will join in the democratic political process by voting on every major issues.

The big question is; how the Government can afford such a huge amount of UBI to pay? The ZWT-II  answer is; LET EVERYONE, RICH OR POOR, UNCONDITIONALLY PAY AN EQUAL OR UNIFORM AMOUNT (SAY 30% ) OF INCOME TAX AND IN RETURN SHOULD RECEIVE AN EQUAL AMOUNT OF UNCONDITIONAL UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME. This would make the UBI equitable and meaningful for all purpose.

Money plays crucial role in our present day politics, corrupting the electoral process, manipulating voting outcome or the results. Elections are mainly funded by the capitalist money, the root of corruption in the politics. It should be banned; instead every eligible voters should be allocated certain amount of money which they can transfer to whichever candidate, who they think represents their interest. So to ensure a FREE AND FAIR election.

The FREE TIME in the zero work society will allow the large population to unite and OCCUPY themselves in the political arena of all decision making. Political involvement and activism of the masses is already happening where there is easy access to an internet connection. ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY PLUS FREE TIME in the era of UBI, will bring propound socio-economic change and political REVOLUTION. Most importantly, as robots rise and more citizens have free time, the internet will become the method for bringing together activists, who will undoubtedly focus on more equitable income distribution, not just for elites but for all people.

Strengthening of democratic principles, protecting the fundamental human rights of the INDIVIDUAL especially the FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AGAINST imposition of majority power/opinion will become crucial. This is a vast subject matter, here I will leave it to the experts in political science to expand on this theme, even though they have failed so far to put forward a clear political vision for human society in the coming decades.   

Most import of all, the ZWT sees the UBI  as the  FORERUNNER  or HARBINGER of the upcoming profound SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION. The present economic pattern of top 10% population owning more than 90% of the wealth will be abolished, in its place a more equitable egalitarian economic system, primarily aimed at the redistribution of wealth and equitable income. will be established

According to the ZWT, the Marxian Socialist Revolution failed mainly because (similar to the capitalist society) its inherent inability to eliminate the human labor exploitation especially the day to day hardship and suffering on the labouring population at the lower social stratus. Now, the great progress in the technology (AI robots) rendering the human labour exploitation absolute, will give the humanity the great opportunity to replace the brutal wages, profit disparity income making system with an adequate UBI distribution system.

The present day risk taking business entrepreneurship for profit making inefficient system will be replaced by the highly efficient day to day decision making  QUANTUM computers system. People with the capacity, ability and talent will be selected to run the industries, businesses and the economic system IRRESPECTIVE of how much money, wealth they possessed or inherited in the past.

Huge Increase In Human Life Expectancy

As science and technology progress in the coming decades, there will be tremendous advancement in medical health science, genomics etc. New drug therapies, Nano-medicines, and genetics research will be able to cure almost all diseases including Cancer, Diabetics, heart disease etc. The human lives could surpass 150 years with the upcoming ANTI-AGING DRUGS. Growing older may become a choice, rather than inevitability.

Humanity will enter a new era of abundance. The future purpose of human life should be the fulfilment of every human need, want, comfort, leisure and HEALTH. All kinds of entertainment or pleasure should be available and affordable for the common people under the equitable economic redistribution scheme of PBI or Basic Income. If we put the progress in science and technology into a single word, it would be “disruption” in every sphere. The old morals, taboos, and limits will be completely revamped and overturned.

Besides the above mentioned socio-economic, political and the health empowerment of the common people, the ZWT  in its horizon sees  the majority of the population in the future with the UBI entitlement will mostly abandon their jobs or employment to  join into the Zero Work Society. They will be engaged in all kinds of pleasures and entertainment as the MAIN OCCUPATION of their day to day  life.  Specially in things like  Food,  Sex,  Recreational drugs. Choosing to live in the past, human body mind capacity enhancement. And, of course, all of the thousands of hobbies which will become popular in the Zero Work Society.

Zero Work Society:  Common People MAIN OCCUPATION Food, Sex And Drugs

(WARNING: some readers may find my following ZWT future vision offensive; readers discretion is advised.)

Throughout the history, food, sex, recreational drugs were the primary source providing the most basic pleasures to the humankind, which remains very true even today. In the past century the industrial and the electronic revolution has invented plentiful of visual, auditory and illusionary web of entertainments; even though, very powerful they cannot replace the basic pleasures of the food, sex, and the recreational drugs. 

Common people believe the rich can enjoy all the pleasures of food, sex etc. Ironically however, nature  has prevented people (specially the wealthy) to enjoy these pleasures fully or adequately, sometimes, even to its minimal because of its threat of causing serious health issues, diseases and death. Nevertheless, majority people go in pursuit of money and wealth, the main currency to buy those primary pleasures. Unfortunately, despite making/having lots of money, their health deprives them from enjoying these most basic biological desires and pleasures that humans can have. Nonetheless, they continue to accumulate wealth, hoping their children will enjoy those pleasures with their inherited wealth. But the sordid tale repeats again. Now with the advent of new medicines the problem of over-weight, diabetics, heart diseases, and other problem like sexual dysfunction will disappear in the future. Thereby a new era in human society will emerge in which all people will be able to enjoy all those primary or basic human pleasures thoroughly without fear or apprehensions.

Food

Indulging in all sorts of foods and drinks to its fullest will become one of the main occupation of the future public that was deprived to the common people in the past. People will try whatever food they like. Seeking every culinary delight and whatever amount they like to eat without any fear of overweight. They may become more creative, if not expert chefs. Instead of readymade food, they will start preparing their own food, experimenting  different kinds in dining varieties that never heard today. In the next stage, people may become innovative and start to grow their own food in their garden or they may create new taste sensation by printing food through 3D technology. Hundreds of new food and drink items having novel taste, smell and flavours not yet known can be explored.

Sex

Sexual revolution or liberation will be the “next big thing”. If people want to experience any form of sex they are interested in, they will have the opportunity. Most importantly, they will be able to enhance their body/mind capacity to its fullest for enjoying the carnivorous pleasure of sex to the maximum extent. A sexologist may write volumes of it.

Premature ejaculation, premature ejaculation, frigidity will become a thing of the past, people able to stay engaged in sex continually for hours together, if they like without any sort of negative health impact. We may go beyond merely remaining young and have the ability to change body shape, gender or colour as we like. Sexual discrimination based on age, race, colour gender, will vanish. More people willing to have sex than refraining from it.

Sexual taboos, stigmas that we have today will be removed. Of course, for those who want it, AI humanoid sex-bots will be built to satisfy human sexual desires, especially for that portion of humanity that has physical or mental barriers to more conventional forms of sex. However, as sex-bots become more common, many people today may wonder how their owners will fit into society.

Recreational Drugs

The main recreational drug today is alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, heroin  will be redesigned or replaced with the advanced safe and healthy recreational drugs having no negative health effect but  can produce unimaginable mind bending ecstasy, perpetual euphoria, spiritual bliss without causing the addiction, harms or  diseases like the old drugs. Many people will choose these psychedelic drugs than to have the technological Virtual/Augmented Reality mechanical sets over their head.  Here, I leave most of it to the experienced experts in those drugs to tell more of it. 

In the 20^th century many human behaviours accepted as normal which were considered to be extremely dangerous, evil and immoral in the old 19^th century. Similarly, the behaviours which we consider very dangerous evil and immoral today, will be accepted as quite normal in the coming decades of the 21^st century. For example, walking naked in the street is a criminal behaviour today but will become normal behaviour tomorrow.

People Choosing To Live In The Past As Human SURVIVORS.

Futurists predict mega cities with sophisticated buildings, environments in which everything is self-contained, where people never need to leave home to do work as they communicate wirelessly with their employer, bosses, friends and families around the world . The home will become a cocoon that provides for all of our needs including entertainment. ZW Theory predicts that many, if not most, will completely abandon the modern, mega, sophisticated urban city life and return to their ancestral roots of living as primitive times. In the forests grounds or on the tree top canopy, surrounded by wild life, rivers and mountains in tune with the nature.

The present image of the world will change. Smart cosmopolitan cities, futurist mega buildings on the one side many abandoned villages, towns and old cities on the other side. They will be turned into jungles, savannahs or the vast deserts with wild life of ancient times. Dinosaurs will come back to life and roam on earth again for the people to see and enjoy. Of course, all people will be inter-connected and can travel back and forth past to future if they like or when necessary.

Human Mind Body Capacity Enhancement: TRANSHUMANS

The tremendous advancement in the medical science, gene therapy will provide the people with the great immunity from all diseases also the opportunity to alter their physical body and mind. Children will be liberated from the drudgery of long years of school studies imposed by the modern education system. All memories, knowledge , education skills can be downloaded straight into the human brain/mind, making them super good.  Every human can be as smart  talented and intelligent as the other by this brain computer interphase.  People can become great singers (changing vocal cords) dancers, any kind of super- human athletics or performance artist scientist as they like. Transhumanism as it is popularly known. Singularity can transcend the humanity.

Private Property Will Disappear Along With The Human Labor

Human society in the history so far has been bedevilled by the scarcity of goods, services and security. The security against scarcity is having one’s own territory. It begins with the evolution of species, rooted in the animal kingdom.  Humankind not only seeks their own territory but also possession of private property for the same old reasons. Most importantly the human character of SELFISHNESS, greed, EGO arises also for those same reasons

In the olden days private property means land and labor resources, in the modern age MONEY has mostly replaced it. Human labour is a unique thing, intricately connected to scarcity of goods and generating money. People are mostly PREOCCUPIED with making money. Making more and more money has become the goal of human life. If you don’t have money you have to labor to earn it. Make more and more money get rich and wealthy so one can escape from the hardship of labor on the ground.

The progress in the Science and technology enables society to produce the Goods and services in more efficient ways. The advancement in the AI robotic  will makes it,  the new world working class replacing human workers as it gets far more better than the human workers in every respect. It can produce the goods and services in such an abundances without the need of human labor. As the human labor compulsion, bondage, servitude disappear, the private property, money, scarcity will follow suit.

Conclusion

In the past years, I have read thousands of articles, YouTube etc. videos, published by the IT professional future  experts, social ethics academic Pundits panels  stories about the rapid progress in the science and technology, specially in the field AI robots its great future business opportunities also its impending doom of human job disruptions. However, the future workforce, HR specialists and other experts keep on promising the public that new technologies will create new jobs. Therefore people needs to be prepare for this new kind of job transition. Retrain or get more education for qualifying themselves for the new jobs. The students should go to more and higher cognitive human centric education so there will be enough better paying jobs for the future generation to enjoy their life.

However from the ZWT point of view; “these future experts ARE MISLEADING THE PUBLIC”. My main point is, there is no more need of human labor or jobs as we see today for the industries, business, economy and society to run. In the coming decades, human labor will become redundant as the result of this rapid science and technological growth.

Therefore, the main task of the ZWT-II is to make the public aware that the MAIN OCCUPATION for the common man in the coming decades most importantly to be engaging in the Social, Economic and Political including the Intellectual EMPOWERMENT  OF THE COMMON PEOPLE. ZWT foresees the necessity of the Guaranteed Income distribution programme like UBI  as the forerunners of this propound social change or REVOLUTION. People in their everyday life will be free to engage in full-time engagement of whatever kind of legally accepted entertainment they like. All kind of pleasures  especially; food, sex, drugs, sports, intellectual pursuits etc., will become dominant occupation of the common people, opposed to the compulsion of labor, job or employment. Unfortunately, the  Future Pundits who like to remain “Politically Correct” DO NOT SEE IT BECAUSE THEIR SALARIES DEPEND ON NOT SEEING IT. 

Of course, there will be plentiful of leasure, entertainment for people to spend their time. Audio visual, social media, TV, movies, AR, VR etc., which I did not feel necessary to mention because it is already very well known to the people. The Future experts need to show the public objectively how the future will unwind ahead of us when there will be no jobs for the people to engage in.  Most importantly, they  needs to take the risk of envisioning the everyday occupation of the average man and woman in the near future of 10, 20 or 30 years that most of us will going to see and experience in our life time rather than jumping to the next 100 or 200 years.

Finally, I don’t deny that the exponential growth in the science and technology can pose some serious existential threat to the human society. However, we don’t have any real option but to be optimistic that the humanity will find some way or solutions to overcome it in the future.

Copyright 2017 . Valerian Texeira. Latest update  May 2018.
Email: texeiraval@gmail.com

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