Comments on: If you want to measure the health of the economy, forget about “employment” https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/forget-about-employment/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=forget-about-employment Tue, 11 Sep 2018 13:39:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.4 By: garrilla https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/forget-about-employment/#comment-21 Wed, 05 Oct 2016 16:58:00 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=172#comment-21 You should read Andre Gorz’s ‘Critique of Economic Reason’ which tries to ask the question, how might humans spend their time after automation?

]]> By: Farah Ravanbakhsh https://neweconomics.opendemocracy.net/forget-about-employment/#comment-16 Sun, 02 Oct 2016 20:41:00 +0000 https://www.opendemocracy.net/neweconomics/?p=172#comment-16 If we do not have to work for a living, can our identity be fullfilled by becoming activists for environmental justice or a world without conflict, or?? I guess machines can begin doing that as well. So, maybe nature walk, travel, listening to music, reading, etc. can provide us with identity and fullfillment? Of course that would enhance our thinking and creative ability. Does this sound idealistic or too simplistic?

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