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I could never subscribe to such a dystopian outlook of the future. Sure, we could augment ourselves with tech, but that will not ultimately stop things like aut
by littlemacha 10y ago
I could never subscribe to such a dystopian outlook of the future. Sure, we could augment ourselves with tech, but that will not ultimately stop things like automation in transport. Millions of jobs are set to be made redundant and there is no clear replacement for them. No amount of tech augmentation to ourselves is going to fix that. More importantly, we are still trying to understand what a majority of humans would do if their basic needs were cared for. That's the purpose of studies like this. Humanity has never truly broken free of its evolutionary bond to fighting for the resources it needs to survive, it just changed what resources it fights over. This is truly uncharted territory and UBI is currently the only viable idea on the table to deal with it.
- jackcosgrove 10y agoMy prediction of what most people will do if they receive a basic income and have no hope of getting a job is that they will do drugs all the time.
- NoGravitas 10y agoAnd yet, such studies as exist show that this does not, in fact, happen. Did you read the article?
- F2468 10y agoPlease elaborate on how you reached this conclusion.
- bryondowd 10y agoI expect a relatively small percentage would be interested in dangerous chemical highs if they aren't leading miserable lives they need to escape from. Myself, in that situation would likely spend my time socializing, playing games, consuming various media, and generating some amount of my own content. On a larger scale, I expect that if half the population didn't/couldn't work, but was allowed to live comfortably anyway, there would be a considerable increase in experimental creativity and social functions. We'd all essentially go out and find things to do together and alone.