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Tesla boss Elon Musk backs a 'basic income' for everyone because robots will take away our jobs…[tr]
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 07:44 EST, 15 February 2017 | Kelly McLaughlin

Posted on 02/15/2017 5:50:03 AM PST by Olog-hai

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Full title: Tesla boss Elon Musk backs a ‘basic income’ for everyone because robots will take away our jobs leaving us without any ‘meaning’ in our lives

We can always drive one of his exploding cars into oblivion, yes? Never mind this old refrain of the left about robots.

1 posted on 02/15/2017 5:50:03 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Fine. Let’s start with redistributing all of his money.


2 posted on 02/15/2017 5:52:12 AM PST by lodi90
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I suggest we start with Elon Musk and put him on a “basic income.”

This guy has milked the taxpayers enough.


3 posted on 02/15/2017 5:53:06 AM PST by boycott
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To: Olog-hai

If no one is working, no one is producing, and no one deserves to be paid, and no one can buy anything.

It will never get to 100% of jobs done by robots, because of the previous sentence.

This man is unbalanced, but the danger is that many will take him seriously.


4 posted on 02/15/2017 5:54:42 AM PST by I want the USA back (Liberalism is a mental disorder without a cure.)
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If half our jobs will be threatened by robots, why are we allowing ANY large number of immigrants at all?


5 posted on 02/15/2017 5:56:06 AM PST by Gulf War One
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To: Olog-hai

What happens when the uber intelligent computer networks and robots conclude that it’s a waste of effort to keep useless humans alive on life support?


6 posted on 02/15/2017 5:56:46 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: I want the USA back

See six. What makes us think that super intelligent robots/computer networks will keep feeding us indefinitely?


7 posted on 02/15/2017 5:57:55 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Olog-hai

If there is going to be a welfare state, may as well be GBI.
One of those “if you’re going to do it wrong, do it well” things.
Should be a warning to stop doing it wrong.


8 posted on 02/15/2017 5:58:54 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Understand the Left: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.")
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To: Gulf War One
“The communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.” …
You know the left never questions their own dogma no matter how much it lacks sense.
9 posted on 02/15/2017 6:00:08 AM PST by Olog-hai
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I am all for raising the taxes of anyone registered as a Democrat!

Give this morons what they want! THEY want to pay more taxes, make them pay more taxes! and leave the rest of us alone!


10 posted on 02/15/2017 6:01:17 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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We keep on hearing that countries like Germany are importing 3rd worlders because of a lack of workers. Can’t Germany use robots?


11 posted on 02/15/2017 6:01:33 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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I need one of them there robots that cleans house, does dishes, plants and harvests a garden, He She It whatever needs to make good coffee also.


12 posted on 02/15/2017 6:04:26 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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The machines will destroy the working man! (Take #47)

We managed to make it through the Industrial Revolution and the Information Revolution, I think we will make it through the Robotics Revolution.

D@mn Luddites...

13 posted on 02/15/2017 6:05:04 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Agent Orange: The cure for Corrupt Crony Capitalism!)
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To: Gulf War One

Sadly many jobs will disappear, hopefully new ones will replace them if not we will likely we may end up paying people to sit on their ass all day getting high and making babies..., Kind of like today but worse.


14 posted on 02/15/2017 6:07:07 AM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: Olog-hai

So when is Tesla going to start cutting the checks?


15 posted on 02/15/2017 6:08:10 AM PST by Rusty0604 (bc)
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To: Travis McGee

Have you been watching “Humans”? I’ve got a feeling it doesn’t end well. (No spoilers, please. We are still on Season 1.)


16 posted on 02/15/2017 6:08:41 AM PST by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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To: Olog-hai

GBI is the gateway unavoidably to absolute totalitarianism.

One need only look at the aggregate behavior of the recipients of secular ‘welfare’ benefits. Unless Karl Marx is right and human nature will change, widespread GBI will destroy civilization itself without totalitarian guidance for each individual.


17 posted on 02/15/2017 6:11:56 AM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: I want the USA back

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Keep atheists from power, because they are unwise, unrestrained, and prone to murder.


18 posted on 02/15/2017 6:12:23 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: jjotto

Marx has never been right about anything. Only someone like him could come up with the absurd notion (without explanation) that an all-powerful centralized state would “wither away” into his mythical communistic society. And as “The Naked Communist” points out, Marx’s ideal human race would be “conditioned to think like criminals” without a shred of morality.


19 posted on 02/15/2017 6:18:29 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Elon Musk sucks off the government teat. He is clinically insane


20 posted on 02/15/2017 6:21:59 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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