Posted on 11/01/2014 6:58:22 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
Robots are poised to eliminate millions of jobs over the coming decades. We have to address the coming epidemic of "technological unemployment" if we're to avoid crippling levels of poverty and societal collapse. Here's how a guaranteed basic income will help — and why it's absolutely inevitable.
(Excerpt) Read more at io9.com ...
Yea sure, then the loco left gives the robots the right to vote and the robots decide to do away with biological units.
We could get a lot of new immigrants (mostly illegal).
Some might riot because this new welfare may not be enough.
We'd likeley have a lot of early retireees...............
A BIG, or a basic income guarantee is the moving force behind the so-called Fair Tax. So, for all you proponents of the FT you must realize you support the objectives of international Marxists and Communists.
The critical component of thr FT to that end is the prebate. For many people it will be the biggest monthly check they ever received.
That is a really simple idea.
From a simpleton.
Guaranteed to bring on the robots even faster.
New inventions do not cost jobs. They create new opportunities, but only if there is a truly free economic system unfettered by drones in government who interfere with or distort natural economic laws.
BCS. Born, Collect, Stagnate.
Anyone else remember that SF story?
The only ‘fair’ tax is a head tax.
There's only one drawback to this great idea, summarized in my life philosophy that consists of 3 words:
It's Never Enough.
It applies to everything, to include your work, your family, your spouse, your relationship with God, etc. It simply means to do one's best every day, and keep trusting in God to help you stay on the right path.
Wow, this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever!
If everyone has the same income, it is no different than everyone having no income. Money is a proxy for goods and services; without the exchange of goods and services, money is worth less than the little magnetic particles that store it in the banks.
Who makes the robots and repairs them? Other robots? Well who makes and repairs them? Who designs them? Who provides the raw materials to make them? What is a ‘basic income’, and who provides it? Where do they get the resources for this ‘basic income’.
Lenin, too, tried this sort of bogus appeal to the “social good.”
Then he imposed a tyranny and sent protesters to the Gulag to be worked to death or shot.
This has been the unvarying pattern wherever and whenever this sort of crap has been imposed on a population.
Soooo... The solution to robots is to make everyone a robot.
"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
I don’t agree with universal guaranteed income, but we need to be prepared for the day when huge numbers of people are replaced with automation and robotics. Think about three million long haul truckers replaced by driverless trucks. It will initially be workers in lower wage jobs that will be impacted.
You really don't need to read past this opening statement. His basic premise is incorrect. Technological change has been rampant for decades - in fact for centuries. It has not caused unemployment. It has simply provided more for less to the greater population. Even the unemployed seem to have iPhones in their pockets these days.
Only a true Marxist would take the position of the author of this article. The idea that there is not enough work to go around is simply nonsense. There is always work to be done and it would be done if not for the interference of governments at every level but particularly at the Federal level.
I say each time someone writes or shares this garbage as aa supporter, they are immediately obligated to assume the entire financial care for another chosen by lottery. They are to have no direct contact, just once a week, they get an update how their money is spent. This money is taken automatically regardless of financial considerations.
Call it practice what you preach. Let’s see how liberals react when they no longer can advocate spending other people’s money.
Ask those Russian peasants that subsisted on potatoes and vodka before 1989.
The law of supply and demand cannot be overridden.
Just look at the wailing and gnashing of teeth when there are virtually no annual increases in SS or federal pay. Multiply that times 10, and that may be underestimated.
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- GUARANTEED MINIMUM INCOME (welfare for everybody) :
- “Thankful 0bama exerted his considerable influence in this matter!” - Gamecock
- Finally at least the black Chicago preachers and citizens are turning on Obama - “What good is a higher minimum wage when there are no jobs?”
- In 1-5 years the 60,00 (plus) hispanics that Obama invited to America will be illegally voting and well before that illegally taking the jobs the blacks are losing - and under the table without paying any Fed or State income taxes -
- Remember - Detroit was once a prosperous city that has now turned into swamp bankrupt bulldozed vacant lots - and the BS’ing Democrats were running Detroit -
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I’m assuming there will be a class of “betters” who will make somewhat more than the UBI.
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