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>Training middle aged truck drivers to be mathematicians would be extremely difficult, expensive, and their math career would last 10-20years at best. I don't
by Retra 8y ago
>Training middle aged truck drivers to be mathematicians would be extremely difficult, expensive, and their math career would last 10-20years at best.
I don't think these kinds of inefficiencies are as big of a problem when we're already talking about how their current jobs are so efficient we don't need human input anymore. In effect, they are so efficient at being truck drivers that they don't even need to be present, so we should pay them to do that job as well as they are, with the expectation that they put the extra time/effort into things we otherwise wouldn't pay for.
Mathematics is just one example. Pretty much any volunteer work would do, or any creative/intellectual pursuit.
- Latteland 8y agoSorry but that's just naive from an american perspective. In the US if you get seriously hurt without health insurance you might just die. Politically it's not conceivable that we'll have UBI or pay people for not working. It's at the least a little controversial to pay UBI in most western countries. I see UBI as different than basic adequate social services so people don't live on the street or can get health insurance without it being tied to their job - the us is ridiculous in that way of course.