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Right. It’s more of a fantasy where they don’t have to give up any of the things they enjoy about the world we inhabit, but the things they don’t enjoy (paying
by PragmaticPulp 4y ago
Right. It’s more of a fantasy where they don’t have to give up any of the things they enjoy about the world we inhabit, but the things they don’t enjoy (paying money and doing work) are shifted to the rich and robots.
- Riverheart 4y agoUBI isn't going to pay for people to go on tropical vacations, people will still work, just less to survive. And the rich? The rich are going to replace the average person's job with a robot/software anyway. What's the point of all this automation if not to work less? I didn't realize The Jetsons was such a dystopian vision of the future. Well, as long as we're the Haves it's not our problem.
- red-iron-pine 4y agoThe vast, vast majority of HN are the haves, or aspiring haves, e.g. jr programmers waiting to bootstrap.