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From his website http://invece.org/ http://invece.org/: > Artificial Intelligence will completely reshape our society very soon. If a universal income is not p

From his website http://invece.org/ http://invece.org/: > Artificial Intelligence will completely reshape our society very soon. If a universal income is not provided in a timely fashion (as AI makes many workers no longer relevant) we are going to be in big trouble. I think about that very often these days. Governments worldwide must act on that now. Because even if they'll start a legislative process to implement it, it will take a long time and we are running out of time.

frant-hartm 3y ago
What a pile of nonsense. Yes some dumb jobs will go away, but more will be created and people will quickly adapt. Leaps in productivity never lead to increased unemployment or reduced standards of living.
- dataflow 3y ago
  > people will quickly adapt Which people are you thinking of? The 22yo who just got out of college? Or the 50yo whose entire career and experience are getting automated away? Is the idea that they'd all pick up Python in a couple weeks in some bootcamp if their expected careers didn't work out?
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- stevenhuang 3y ago
  The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken - Bertrand Russell
- pepelotas 3y ago
  Dumb people exist -just as ugly people do- that already have employment problems. And education can't fix it, because there is only so much they are capable of learning. As we do away with the easy dumb jobs, we condemn more people to poverty. We surely need to figure something out, specially if we are going to keep raising the bar.
gonzo41 3y ago
The ATM did destroy bank tellers. BUT who cares. Life got better, now we don't have to line up at an ATM to cause a run on a bank. We can do it with our phones! But seriously. It's just change, it's always happening.
- magicalhippo 3y ago
  > Life got better I dunno, we seem to be struggling with a lot of kids who don't fit into an academic school run, and who no longer have lots of options in the form of practical jobs they can do instead when they're 16 and fed up with school.
  - gonzo41 3y ago
    umm, plumbing and electrical trades. They are like having a license to print money.
    - anaganisk 3y ago
      Not sure which country you are speaking about but in the majority of the countries in the world they're not. Those jobs are severely underpaid. Also if supply increases, demand also decreases, hence leading to further loss. Imagine the level of hopelessness, anger and despair which is already the case in the avg population because of inflation etc, if their jobs are suddenly automated. Bank tellers weren't educated to become Bank tellers, They could move on to other front desk jobs. But things corporations want to automate with AI are basically the core of many people who got educated for that job. The change you are talking about is not gonna switch easily. We don't have to sit in an Ivory tower and say, "change happens", you can't just make an entire generation to become educated for something and just drop em.
    - nikanj 3y ago
      Electrical trades have been sliding up the skills scale. I don't know about plumbing, but I'd guess they also have to deal with more and more automation / electronics
    - magicalhippo 3y ago

frant-hartm 3y ago

What a pile of nonsense. Yes some dumb jobs will go away, but more will be created and people will quickly adapt. Leaps in productivity never lead to increased unemployment or reduced standards of living.

dataflow 3y ago
> people will quickly adapt Which people are you thinking of? The 22yo who just got out of college? Or the 50yo whose entire career and experience are getting automated away? Is the idea that they'd all pick up Python in a couple weeks in some bootcamp if their expected careers didn't work out?
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stevenhuang 3y ago
The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken - Bertrand Russell
pepelotas 3y ago
Dumb people exist -just as ugly people do- that already have employment problems. And education can't fix it, because there is only so much they are capable of learning. As we do away with the easy dumb jobs, we condemn more people to poverty. We surely need to figure something out, specially if we are going to keep raising the bar.

gonzo41 3y ago

The ATM did destroy bank tellers. BUT who cares. Life got better, now we don't have to line up at an ATM to cause a run on a bank. We can do it with our phones! But seriously. It's just change, it's always happening.

magicalhippo 3y ago
> Life got better I dunno, we seem to be struggling with a lot of kids who don't fit into an academic school run, and who no longer have lots of options in the form of practical jobs they can do instead when they're 16 and fed up with school.
- gonzo41 3y ago
  umm, plumbing and electrical trades. They are like having a license to print money.
  - anaganisk 3y ago
    Not sure which country you are speaking about but in the majority of the countries in the world they're not. Those jobs are severely underpaid. Also if supply increases, demand also decreases, hence leading to further loss. Imagine the level of hopelessness, anger and despair which is already the case in the avg population because of inflation etc, if their jobs are suddenly automated. Bank tellers weren't educated to become Bank tellers, They could move on to other front desk jobs. But things corporations want to automate with AI are basically the core of many people who got educated for that job. The change you are talking about is not gonna switch easily. We don't have to sit in an Ivory tower and say, "change happens", you can't just make an entire generation to become educated for something and just drop em.
  - nikanj 3y ago
    Electrical trades have been sliding up the skills scale. I don't know about plumbing, but I'd guess they also have to deal with more and more automation / electronics
  - magicalhippo 3y ago