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How Universal Basic Income Will Save Us From the Robot Uprising
io9 ^ | 10/31/14 | George Dvorsky

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: socialism; unemployment
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To: Malone LaVeigh

I didn’t see anything in there about the mass executions part. Amateurs.


41 posted on 11/01/2014 7:44:16 AM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: Malone LaVeigh

Businesses have to remember that robots won’t buy the products that they make.


42 posted on 11/01/2014 7:47:07 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Malone LaVeigh
"We are now entering the beginning of an era in which technology has started to destroy employment faster than it creates it,"

Modern Luddites.

43 posted on 11/01/2014 7:47:39 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Malone LaVeigh

Welcome to the Peoples’ Republic of Haven.


44 posted on 11/01/2014 7:47:41 AM PDT by A Balrog of Morgoth (QMC(SW) USN........ CG21 DD988 FFG34 PC6 ARS53)
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To: null and void

If this isn’t a candidate for your list then nothing is.


45 posted on 11/01/2014 7:49:21 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

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.


46 posted on 11/01/2014 7:51:34 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: x1stcav

You’ll get more UMPH with tungsten cored 30.06.


47 posted on 11/01/2014 7:53:06 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Bob

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....


48 posted on 11/01/2014 7:54:39 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

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.


49 posted on 11/01/2014 7:55:40 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

Alas, Brave New Babylon.


50 posted on 11/01/2014 8:08:19 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Sherman Logan

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 ;)


51 posted on 11/01/2014 8:08:22 AM PDT by catbertz
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To: Malone LaVeigh

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.


52 posted on 11/01/2014 8:11:15 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: Bob
Worth repeating: "Well, that covers the “to each according to his needs” part. Where does the “from each according to his abilities” part get addressed?"
53 posted on 11/01/2014 8:13:02 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (You know what, just do it.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

I’m a Southerner and I quit saying “Bless they hearts” years ago. I don’t want anything about them to be blessed.


54 posted on 11/01/2014 8:13:12 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: EBH

And what did he think the idle would do in their copious free time but copulate?


55 posted on 11/01/2014 8:15:23 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (You know what, just do it.)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

Those who design and build the robots might not like the idea...


56 posted on 11/01/2014 8:42:12 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

Tried many times, it is called socialism. It never worked and never will.


57 posted on 11/01/2014 8:47:14 AM PDT by amnestynone (A big government conservative is just a corporatist who is not paying enough taxes.)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

Silly. Just tax the robots.


58 posted on 11/01/2014 9:16:25 AM PDT by amihow
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To: Malone LaVeigh
Robot  uprising photo: Robot 136681801_92055daa3a_b1.jpg
59 posted on 11/01/2014 9:28:18 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: fella

Will it feed through my M1? I didn’t know such a beast was available.


60 posted on 11/01/2014 9:30:43 AM PDT by x1stcav (I was an Infantry Officer back in the 60's. I have no fear.)
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