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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!
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.
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 Great Shift Toward Automation and the Future of Employment
https://hubpages.com/business/The-Great-Shift-and-the-Future-of-Employment
I had a big argument about this earlier today.
My baseline thesis:
Everyone’s fair share of Earth is 8 acres.
Subsistence farming requires about 1-3 acres.
The effort needed to produce enough to live on is the baseline productivity expected of every able bodied adult. You may contract into mutually beneficial employment to leverage greater productivity and earn more or enjoy better conditions, but if you don’t produce at least that much, you’re unduly lazy.