If we are to avoid unemployment when technology increases productivity, we have choices. We must increase our level of material living (more private luxury gadgets or more public luxury services) and/or decrease our total working time. These choices reflect social power relations. Capital owners...

In present Western societies, we witness the growing power of the state over the citizens, with an ever-growing flow of freedom-encroaching regulations, legitimated by the wish to keep full employment for all, for all of life. It is suggested here that a major political challenge for the rest of...