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Won't millions of people loose employment? I don't know I'm just asking.

• boomboomsubban 9y ago
  Nobody 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 ago
    Well, 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 ago
  Sure, 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 ago
    So 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 ago
      No, I don't think it's 'just' that, but it's definitely one of the purposes of it.