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Buttcheeks clearly doesn't understand the idea of guaranteed basic income, but he's illustrating quite clearly why it won't happen. The disaster of strongarming companies into hiring people they don't need is what's waiting.
The irony here is I remember reading in the 90's where a bunch of people did the math and setting the basic income much higher than minimum wage (something like $700/month) costed like less than half the welfare spending at the time.
Buttcheeks argues points tangentially related to the discussion at hand. Always has, always will.
It isn't money, for all persons, regardless of employment?Quote:
Originally Posted by Vasteel
It seems pretty inevitable considering how automation is already squeezing out low-skill jobs and will within decades do the same to MBAs and doctors. We can't all be poets and artists (and eventually the robots will even be able to do that).
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Have any of you actually worked in industry? You guys are super optimistic
It took me six months to have engineering plan a cable run of 20 feet. And another month for a contractor to run it. 7 months just to get a flow meter installed on something we spend 100,000 a month.
Have you ever thought that maybe we'll flub this and it will never happen? Like flying cars and hover boards? People have been saying this shit since the fucking steam engine.
sounds like all the more reason for automation to me
Self-directed killbots will sort all of this out.
Well, killing us would be a lot easier than figuring out how to do all the dumb shit we want.
If you had to figure out a way to automate every store in town, or kill all humans, and you have no ethics or emotions, what would you do?
Kill alllll the humans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26