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To: who_would_fardels_bear

They said the exact same thing every time. Remember the Luddites?

There may be something different about this time around, but I’d need some very specific evidence as to why, because cosmetically it looks about the same magnitude as what came before, if not less actually.

In the British industrial revolution, automated shuttle looms were 40x more efficient than human weavers, but that didn’t cause unemployment.

Point to me an innovation today that’s 40x as efficient as a person. I can’t think of anything, even computers haven’t increased productivity that much.

That’s why I think this is no different.

Also, UBI is just communism wrapped up in a package that libertarians & some conservatives find digestible.

They’re experimenting with it in 3 municipalities in Ontario, and it’s a total disaster.


32 posted on 05/03/2017 1:04:38 PM PDT by Thalean
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To: Thalean
"UBI is just communism wrapped up in a package"

I don't know that they're really taking all that much time to wrap UBI in a package.

It seems to me more like communism au naturale.

34 posted on 05/03/2017 1:47:48 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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