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We need basic income.
by starpilot 8y ago
We need basic income.
- adventured 8y agoWe used to have tens of thousands of low paid telephone operators. As recently as 1984, AT&T still employed 40,000 of them. We didn't need that profession either. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/04/us/once-a-friendly-fixture-a-telephone-operator-finds-herself-obsolete.html https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/04/us/once-a-friendly-fixtur...
- quxbar 8y agoThere's almost 4 million employees in the fast food industry in the US, so the problem is a few orders of magnitude bigger. Also, what happens when the pool of jobs for unskilled workers dries up?