"It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery..." Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

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[–]thoughtcriminal 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The problem is that everyone wants to be one of the 9,999 getting the free ride from the 1 dude who applied himself, and surely the 1 dude doesn't want to give away what he worked for to a bunch of NEETs who add no value to society.

Should he be forced to give it away? By whom? And if so, what incentive does he or anyone like him have to create a technological breakthrough in the first place?

Also, there are more jobs than there are unemployed people in the US currently, by a large margin. So this logic doesn't really follow. We don't need to invent jobs. There's a labor shortage.

It's easy to make shallow statements about how great it would be if no one had to work and wealth was perfectly distributed in a communist utopia. Getting there without starving your population or severely curtailing their individual rights is the hard part.