Posted on 03/27/2017 1:45:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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A 39-year old whippersnapper worried about a robot taking his job. ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henning_Meyer
Get a better skill set! You’re still young, and fairly well educated! Don’t Let The Robots Get You Down!
Oh, and advocating that all people get paid for not working. Just ‘cuz.
Groups already have experimented with universal basic income. The outcome is not good.
I did not work for a while after the buggy whip company I worked at went out of business then I got a job with a typewriter company then after they went bust I got a job making incandescent lightbulbs and......
I moved onto other jobs.
At some point, it will be, “what jobs?”
I like the idea if everybody being given ownership of the robots, as opposed to them only being owned by a few. That might be the only way to solve this as robots become more capable and more productive.
Interesting read. Author forgot to discuss what happens when we cede control to “Big AI” in recognition of its superior intellect and it returns the favor by deciding that the solution to an inability to feed further increases in the population of basic income recipients is to begin reducing their daily calorie intake. Followed by reductions in access to electrical power, clothing, transportation, medical care, etc.
and it will be empowered to reduce it, and reduce it, and ...
Billions will starve, very slowly. Billions more, previously disarmed in the name of social order, will be “controlled” (murdered) by police and soldier robots when they rebel with stones and clubs against being starved to death.
All those production improvements, technological breakthroughs, and new disease cures predicted to arise with AI may end up being purchased at a terrible price.
George Jetson complained of his heavy work load- having to push a button for one hour, two days a week.
Ouch. His poor fingers.
There is one thing for certain—the “social engineers” will f___ this one up big time.
Universal Basic Income is nothing but socialism.
If the Government pays everyone’s income, the Government tells everyone what to do. The Universal Boss.
It is a solution, in search of something (anything) to justify it - a cure worse than the disease.
Let everyone own robots. Let everyone figure out how to make their own living with them.
The latest British terrorist was receiving money from the British welfare system. The last thing we need is more people who don’t have to work for a living.
Buttonitis
The Great Shift Toward Automation and the Future of Employment
https://hubpages.com/business/The-Great-Shift-and-the-Future-of-Employment
The idiocy of this author - automation is going to take our jobs but we still somehow need to have immigrants to compete for what is left.
If you’re going to see employment go down, you do not need immigrants. In fact, they are a drain on the economy if pulling from an economy they didn’t contribute to in the past.
“Let everyone own robots. Let everyone figure out how to make their own living with them.”
Sort of a “40 acres and a mule” strategy for the 21st century?
A (interplanetary) country boy can survive!
The problem for the author is that it isn’t socialist enough. That’s why he goes on for workers to “own the means of production”
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