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.
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I didn’t see anything in there about the mass executions part. Amateurs.
Businesses have to remember that robots won’t buy the products that they make.
Modern Luddites.
Welcome to the Peoples’ Republic of Haven.
If this isn’t a candidate for your list then nothing is.
The problem is that all the jobs you list require at minimum above average intelligence. 50% of the population has below average intelligence. There is right now little economic demand for anything they’re capable of producing, and that little is declining.
In future, there just will be no jobs for most such people.
OTOH, in a robot and technology driven economy, there is likely to be a great deal of stuff produced with very little human input, which is of course the definition of productivity. Extend the productivity curve indefinitely and at some point humans become basically redundant to the economy.
So what do we do with all the people for whom there is not and cannot be an economic role in society?
It is quite possible, IMO, that in its final act of creative destruction the market will destroy itself.
You’ll get more UMPH with tungsten cored 30.06.
The Bolsheviks will get around to that — as soon as everyone is dependent on the handouts.
Very similar to how they lied to sell Obamacare as a way to reduce the costs of healthcare....
Like we don’t already have that. Just travel around any city during normal working hours, you’ll enjoy seeing many members of the leisure class enjoy your hard money.
Alas, Brave New Babylon.
I’ve always suspected that these shiny futuristic plans include getting rid of about five billion lesser people through some engineered virus. This won’t happen until the elites are sure they can live well without via technology. This will also allow them to “save” their precious earth from the hungry masses.
Just a wacky midnight fever dream theory ;)
It’s actually a very simple idea: Everyone in society receives a single basic income to provide for a comfortable living whether they choose to work or not.
People who actually believe this would work go to the polls and vote. And they’re shocked that some people would just rather draw their check than work.
I’m a Southerner and I quit saying “Bless they hearts” years ago. I don’t want anything about them to be blessed.
And what did he think the idle would do in their copious free time but copulate?
Those who design and build the robots might not like the idea...
Tried many times, it is called socialism. It never worked and never will.
Silly. Just tax the robots.
Will it feed through my M1? I didn’t know such a beast was available.
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