Abstract
The advent of societies with low employment rates will present a challenge to education. Education must move away from the discourse of skills and towards the discourse of meaning and motivation. The paper considers three kinds of non-waged optional labor that may form the basis of the future economy: prosumption, volunteering, and self-design. All three require the ability of a worker to make meaning of his or her own life.
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Sidorkin, A.M. Education for Jobless Society. Stud Philos Educ 36, 7–20 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-016-9542-3
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