In the 250-plus years between the invention of the water-powered spinning jenny and artificial intelligence, we have developed technology and technique with the primary aim of reducing the number of people necessary to employ for a given amount of output. On a finite planet, the amount of output must eventually stabilise. We cannot maintain for ever the notion that everyone must have a job in order to be allowed to have a life.
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戈登解釋,「支付招聘費用」本身未必構成強迫勞動,若工人能透過合理薪資償還,例如高收入專業人士支付招聘費用後仍能負擔生活,收入足以彌補支出,就不一定屬於強迫勞動。「但若費用高到超過工人可負擔範圍,使其陷入債務束縛、無法脫離雇主或仲介控制,則符合強迫勞動的定義。」當債務與缺乏流動性的簽證制度結合,更是形成強迫勞動的關鍵因素。