Up to 100 people will get $2,000 per month for a year as guinea pigs for when robots take our jobs
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[QUOTE=rndgenerator;50455923]People will be able to pursue what they want to do a lot easier, but moneyless system? How would that even work?[/QUOTE]
It won't. At least not for everybody.
[editline]4th June 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Sableye;50455691] if we don't pass some kind of universal income + healthcare, then its going to be another gilded age where the rich are too rich to work and the poor too unskilled to work. [/QUOTE]
We're [i]already[/i] in a second Gilded Age.
[QUOTE=Pantz Master;50455091]America is stupidly prepared compared to other nations. What do you think China will do when there are no more unskilled labor jobs for their billion+ nation to work in? [B]At least we have a pool of skilled workers who will be able to hold on for a little bit longer[/B] (although their jobs will eventually be taken too).[/QUOTE]
That's nice, and what about the unskilled labor you were talking about?
[editline]5th June 2016[/editline]
However, I do see it as a form of preparedness considering how you guys are experimenting with base income, even if just a small group of 100 people. In America of all places.
Basic income has to be tried out to see if it works, or could be implemented in times of automation becoming more widespread.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;50456248]That's nice, and what about the unskilled labor you were talking about?
[editline]5th June 2016[/editline]
However, I do see it as a form of preparedness considering how you guys are experimenting with base income, even if just a small group of 100 people. In America of all places.
Basic income has to be tried out to see if it works, or could be implemented in times of automation becoming more widespread.[/QUOTE]
"We're" not really experimenting with it. Some random silicon valley startup is. The majority of America would view basic income as "BIG GUBMENT GIVIN OUT WELFARE TO THE ILLEGALS"
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;50456248]That's nice, and what about the unskilled labor you were talking about?
[editline]5th June 2016[/editline]
However, I do see it as a form of preparedness considering how you guys are experimenting with base income, even if just a small group of 100 people. In America of all places.
Basic income has to be tried out to see if it works, or could be implemented in times of automation becoming more widespread.[/QUOTE]
The unskilled labor goes away...
I wasn't addressing that point. What were you trying to prove with your post?
[QUOTE=Pantz Master;50457909]The unskilled labor goes away...
I wasn't addressing that point. What were you trying to prove with your post?[/QUOTE]
You responded to someone who said America is unprepared to automation. Then you said America is [I]stupidly prepared[/I] for it because "at least we have a pool of skilled workers who will be able to hold on for a little bit longer"
So, what the were you trying to prove with your post? And personally I wasn't trying to really prove shit, if anything I just expressed interest over this basic income testing in America, which is, well.. kinda interesting? That's quite it.
[QUOTE=rndgenerator;50455923]People will be able to pursue what they want to do a lot easier, but moneyless system? How would that even work?[/QUOTE]
Not sure really, maybe trade with favors of some sort.
[QUOTE=adamsz;50456216]It won't. At least not for everybody. [/QUOTE]
adamsz is probably right, humans are too greedy currently. But current system is not working for everybody either :v:.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;50458391]You responded to someone who said America is unprepared to automation. [B]Then you said America is [I]stupidly prepared[/I][/B] for it because "at least we have a pool of skilled workers who will be able to hold on for a little bit longer"[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Pantz Master;50455091]America is stupidly prepared [B]compared to other nations[/B]. What do you think China will do when there are no more unskilled labor jobs for their billion+ nation to work in? At least we have a pool of skilled workers who will be able to hold on for a little bit longer (although their jobs will eventually be taken too).[/QUOTE]
Another misquote from you. Stop following me around in different threads and making terrible arguments.
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