| ▲ | pocksuppet an hour ago | |
That depends if there's still a demand for educated people. Doesn't matter how good they are for society - only how much demand there is. If there's no demand, the schools have no reason to change. | ||
| ▲ | inanutshellus an hour ago | parent [-] | |
We'll call ourselves "Eloi"[1], I guess? On the one hand, one really can't remove all of humanity from the economy. Humans are what makes the economy matter, and if you cut them all out, they'll just replace the economy with something else, call it "the economy", and move on. ("Butlerian Jihad" pivot, I suppose.) On the other hand... I'm reminded of dock workers and the advent of container ships. The only way to handle that was to basically pay those workers a living wage for the rest of their lives to ... not work. So... we have options, I guess! | ||