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> BI is usually presented as a right now improvement Not as far as I've seen, and not in this article this discussions about, or any of the articles it subsequ
by treehau5 10y ago
> BI is usually presented as a right now improvement
Not as far as I've seen, and not in this article this discussions about, or any of the articles it subsequently links to in it's body.
" Although basic income seems fiscally challenging today, in a world where technology replaces existing jobs and basic income becomes necessary, technological improvements should generate an abundance of resources and the cost of living should fall dramatically."
That is what I am questioning: what most view as an inevitability and BI is solution for.
I am happy to read BI articles about solving the current socioeconomic problems. The few I have read all make this "automated utopia" assumption. I read exactly one that talks about implementing it with today's constraints.
- someguydave 10y agoAmen. Honestly I think that the popular idea (in the technology world) that magical hardware/software are going to "replace all the jobs" is wishful thinking. I don't think that the very baubles that amuse and distract humanity will also be its doom or its salvation.