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Given the fear about automation's effect on job availability, why is no one talking about basic needs automation? If we can develop machines to serve french fri
by tenaciousDaniel 9y ago
Given the fear about automation's effect on job availability, why is no one talking about basic needs automation? If we can develop machines to serve french fries at McDonalds, certainly there can be some initiatives to automate the production of food/water/shelter/clothing/etc.
If through automation we drive down the cost of staying alive to virtually nil, then we would alleviate much of the consternation about UBI feasibility. But maybe I'm missing something.
- petermcneeley 9y agoMost of the things you listed are basically automated already.
- andriesm 9y agoWhich is why, as automation keeps taking jobs away, even the people at the bottom are better off, since even though they're forced into ever lower paying jobs, what they can buy with this money enables to them to have a better quality of life than before. I.e. if Uber switches to self driving cars, and all the previous drivers are forced into lower paying menial jobs, even them may be able to start affording to use the lowest tier of Uber's service in the future.