And what happens when we print household goods on our 3D printers (designed anywhere in the world and downloaded), and when machines replace most unskilled labour?
Can we *really* provide a living wage by creating "financial services" jobs and giving each other haircuts?
Selling labour to live may not be too viable if our technology continues on it's current trajectory.
Sound unlikely? Have a look at how many labourers it currently takes to feed, clothe and educate 100 humans now compared to 50 years ago. We are facing a crisis where distribution of wealth from Capital to Labour is getting more and more tenuous and less easily justified. How can we tell the worker bludgers from the boss bludgers? The current approach is to pick a side then pummel away at the enemy...not sure if this will lead to a solution!

These arguments always come up when consumer confidence is down, everyone is watching expenditure, and business is lost at what to do about it. There has got to be a particular case going on with qantas. It is The whole body of qantas that is not happy. Let it go to an umpire to sort it out, Joice has elected to sit on his hands, and hope it all goes away. All at a time when there is no confidence in consumerism.

If I had any money in Qantas I'd be getting it out real quick like.

Can anyone help? I'm looking for a Qantas sign to hang on the wall beside the Ansett Airlines one another company killed by it's wage structure. Please when Qantas go, don't flood the airwaves with images of unemployed air hostesses crying over the thing they killed, its sickening.

Always did like lost causes, that's perhaps one reason I drive a Triumph TR7. Many of you won't remember Triumph motorcars. Triumph was just another of those companies killed off by the unions, 30 years ago.