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> * Compression of labour wages by replacing/augmenting with robots. Eliminating work by replacing it with robots is a social good, so long as the lost income
by Tuna-Fish 7y ago
> * Compression of labour wages by replacing/augmenting with robots.
Eliminating work by replacing it with robots is a social good, so long as the lost income is replaced somehow. Bezos is an outspoken proponent of UBI.
- r00fus 7y agoUBI proponents tend to see it replacing minimum wage work but the most popular plan to date (Yang) sees it as a replacement for welfare/food stamps and other means-tested support for the poor. How can it be both?