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If we get a UBI, I'm quitting my developer job and just going to coast the rest of my life. I don't care how many corners I have to cut, lol. Gonna milk that
by justadeveloper2 9y ago
If we get a UBI, I'm quitting my developer job and just going to coast the rest of my life. I don't care how many corners I have to cut, lol. Gonna milk that cow as hard as I can.
My dad used to ask to be laid off jobs (blue collar) so he could collect unemployment for a few months. He did that off and on for years.
- wu-ikkyu 9y agoWhen there's too many cooks in the kitchen, we all benefit when there is less people trying to cook.
- Jabanga 9y agoWe will not benefit from fewer people working..
- wu-ikkyu 9y agoHow do you know?
- erikpukinskis 9y agoWell you won't have any coworkers who are just there for the paycheck and actually have zero interest in solving the company's problem.
- Jabanga 9y agoPeople don't need to be motivated by high-minded ideals to make useful contributions.
- loceng 9y agoOf course they don't - and that's fine. All throughout our evolution we would of had children and elders who would have had limited productivity. Now with automation, how many less people do we actually require to work? It will be very few - it will definitely be more people than the minimum required.
- Dagger2 9y agoThe upcoming AI/robot automation apocalypse means that we are going to have fewer people working. The question is how we're going to deal with that.
- Jabanga 9y agohttp://www.economicshelp.org/blog/6717/economics/the-luddite-fallacy/ http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/6717/economics/the-luddite...
- Dagger2 9y agoThat article covers what happens before the apocalypse. What happens after it, i.e. after the point where AI and robots can not only do our current jobs better than we can, but also all of the ones we could possibly retrain to?
- Jabanga 9y agoUnless AI and robots become effectively humans, they will not be able to do our jobs better than we can. And they do become effectively humans, we will have much bigger things to worry about than unemployment.
- loceng 9y agoElon realizes this, hence his warnings about AI - how we deal with it is build a better bot that counteracts EvilBot 1.0.
- s73ver 9y agoYou might. I wouldn't. I'd be willing to wager that most people here wouldn't. They might take more vacations, but they'd probably also be starting more companies.
- loceng 9y agoHopefully you're a good person or the environment around you will help you grow in positive ways. Would you have a family? And why are you unhappy at your developer job? Is it more stress than you'd like? It seems like your dad had a strong influence on you.