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> Less people will commute to work. But more people will meet for a coffee and order stuff online which then gets delivered in 30 minutes by a robotaxi. We hav

> Less people will commute to work. But more people will meet for a coffee and order stuff online which then gets delivered in 30 minutes by a robotaxi. We havn’t ever seen a situation where a reduction in the cost of work lead to less work being done. What happens is that employers (and the market) demand more work, and only labour law holds back the demand that employees work all their waking hours. You’ll probably respond that UBI will give everyone all the free time they want… but capital owners will have to fund UBI through tax. And capital HATES paying tax. This feels like stuck gears to me. What am I missing?

ben_w 3y ago
> You’ll probably respond that UBI will give everyone all the free time they want… but capital owners will have to fund UBI through tax. And capital HATES paying tax. > This feels like stuck gears to me. What am I missing? Communism. Or at least, some variant of it. If your government owns the full automation and operates it for the citizens, that's much the same as the upper limiting case of a corporation owning the same full automation for the benefit of the shareholders. (I'd say "and this time nobody needs to go to the gulags", but having the government aligned with the citizens is a separate problem: any given state might get it right, or history might rhyme).