Gender discrimination ( Archived) (33)

Equal for less stress. Equal pay for less risk. Equal pay for less danger. All in all it's equal pay for less work.

Women will not be the financial equals of men until such time where the majority of work is redundant and rather than paying people for what their labour is worth on the market we give people free money as a provision to survive on. When the "wage" is based on entitlement and not contribution women will be our economic equals.

Through a rather complex arrangement of laws, regulations and industry we do this already to a modest extent.

And it might not be the death knoll of civilisation. One of the greatest nations on earth(America)was founded on giving everyone a free farm.

When my kids or maybe grandkids are my age people will not be paid based on bringing home the bacon.

In the egalitarian future women don't become economic men in a man's world, rather, we all effectively become the housewife with a robot for a husband.

And within this there will be a housewife elite with the extremes of intelligence or wealth to support or control the robots. "Careers" will belong only to people with an IQ greater than 120 and to people whose parents have multiple millions of dollars in the bank.

What "work" there will be come from the gig economy, the flexible economy, where it's simply a case of tasks which are too small or petty to design and manufacture a robot for. A lot of this work will be surprisingly blue collar yet insufficient to draw a living wage from which is why the idea of giving out free money will become increasingly popular.

One of the greatest dangers in this is how we've changed education over the years from being about broad curriculum and forming well-rounded adults into one of specialising skills and maximising employability. We've gone from civilised education to well-tailored cog in the machine programming yet there's diminishing need and return for human cogs in the machine.

Modern education develops people to serve one purpose alone like an ant in a hive which cannot cognise what the rest of the hive is doing. It helps those in control to live a in society where the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing, yet this is incidental, the truth is that education people into specialised fits an economy which is complex yet remains to be entirely(or almost)automated. Modern education, fluffy pee-cee rhetoric aside, is there to churn out a workforce and not educate someone into a civilised human being. The purpose and objective of education has shifted heavily to the right even if the discipline and rhetoric in schools has shifted to the left. The results of education in the economy are all right wing.

No doubt a lot this change comes from the rise of China where the national culture itself is essentially a corporate hive and each individual is specified for a set task. We're matching that drone way of being which is a dangerous thing as soon as robots outperform the drones.

Perhaps unfair to characterise the purpose of modern education as right wing. Many conservatives and religious types believe in civilised education and well-rounded adults. Studying the bible is about instilling moral virtues and preparing you for life in a civilised society, not about training you for a job. No, it's an extreme part of the economic right which came to the fore in the 1980s and places no value on morality and therefore the sole point of education is creating a workforce.