PHILOS 4 Lecture 9: Lecture 9
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Division of labor creates time for more meaningful, specialized work e. g. , writing a book without having to print it oneself; fixing motorcycles without having to build all of the parts or pave roads. Objection only to work that is not: situated, embodied, purposiveness, and experienced as intrinsically good. Needn"t be work in a trade; could be intellectual labor. No objection to leisure (surfing); only to system that leaves leisure as the only source of meaning. The future of work (the second machine age, brynjolfsson and mcafee) Growth, due to increasing productivity, because of machines/ technological change (168-9) John maynard keynes: unemployment created by technological change outruns our ability to find new uses for labor (174, 8) At end of 20th c, in late 1990s: before employment grew along side productivity. The android experiment : suppose robots, in endless supply, could do everything.
