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we're supposed to have Mars colonized by now by the 1960s predictions, weren't we?
by bolololo1 9y ago
we're supposed to have Mars colonized by now by the 1960s predictions, weren't we?
- zeristor 9y agoAnd full employment too
- sgift 9y agoThe economic incentives for replacing people with machines are far greater than that for going to Mars. So, if that's all you have that's not really reassuring.
- bolololo1 9y agoWon't millions of people loose employment? I don't know I'm just asking.
- boomboomsubban 9y agoNobody knows. What is known is that every past tremendous increase in the working ability of mankind has not resulted in catastrophe despite people predicting that it would.
- ameister14 9y agoWell, that's not exactly true. For the main period of transition and skilled laborers prior to the tremendous increase, it has been a catastrophe.
- ameister14 9y agoSure, but with a universal income that barely keeps them above water, they will continue to spend everything they get and drive the main consumer economy.
- bolololo1 9y agoSo we can say that universal income is just a way of keeping people 'alive' to let corporation earn the money - just like slaves were kept alive to do things for free.
- ameister14 9y agoNo, I don't think it's 'just' that, but it's definitely one of the purposes of it.