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> The purpose of copyrights is to create a marginal incentive to create Income is not the only incentive to create. Many are drawn to the impulse that Eddie Iz
by lukifer 13y ago
> The purpose of copyrights is to create a marginal incentive to create
Income is not the only incentive to create. Many are drawn to the impulse that Eddie Izzard calls "creativist": rather than making things in order to make money, make money in order to make things. Currently, copyrights and markets are the least-worst way we've found to enable these creations to bootstrap, but if we can do better, we should.
> unless you have fantastic levels of productivity such that you can have very high output with very low labor input
The combination of robotics and software make a high-output/low-labor future highly probable, if not inevitable. How long it will take until Basic Income is affordable is debatable.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> The combination of robotics and software make a high-output/low-labor future highly probable, if not inevitable. Sure. But the future is, you know, different than the present. > How long it will take until Basic Income is affordable is debatable. Some level of Basic Income guarantee is affordable now. What varies with productivity is the level at which Basic Income is sustainable.
- lukifer 13y agoAgreed. I'd be curious what the numbers added up to if we eliminated all social welfare programs and spent it it on Basic Income instead (not that I would necessarily advocate for or against that). I'll have to run some fuzzy numbers when I can find a moment.