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I don't understand, how do governments plan to have a long term sustainable basic income for citizens when AI and other technological developments put a large p

• ensiferum 10y ago
  For example, tax the robot work equal to human work. But since the robots don't need money the salary paid to a robot is pooled to a "common bank account" and then distributed to humans according to some criteria by the goverment.
  • chongli 10y ago
    Robots won't replace humans on a one-for-one basis. One human could be replaced by a hundred tiny robots or a factory with a hundred workers might be replaced by a single big robot. We already have single robots that can do a task hundreds of times faster than a human so how do you tax them equally to human work?
    • vorotato 10y ago
      Tax them by their production. If one robot can do the labor of 40,000 surely it can pay for the people it displaced so they don't starve to death.
• notahacker 10y ago
  Probably the same as they dealt with it in every other decade of the past century that people worried about workforces disappearing overnight due to technological development, women entering new areas of the workforce, immigration and outsourcing: by paying unemployment benefit to people whose jobs were very gradually replaced and ignoring the doomsayers who insisted - despite all the evidence to the contrary - that in aggregate humanity wasn't ingenious enough to find new things that other people would pay them to do.