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But it's getting to the point where dishwashing might not even be available as a job. Right now, that's not the case yet. But it's not hard to imagine a future
by thelogos 13y ago
But it's getting to the point where dishwashing might not even be available as a job.
Right now, that's not the case yet. But it's not hard to imagine a future where it is.
Many menial jobs are getting automated and it's just getting worse and worse.
Soon, we will have to do something about it. These protests and revolutions are spreading like the plague. And social unrest is bad for everyone, including business. One day, it will become a necessity.
Just look at countries like Japan and Korea. Too many over-qualified people and not enough jobs. People are hired to do menial task like tearing tickets out of machines and handing it to people in a car. Suicide in these countries are skyrocketing because of hyper-competition.
In the rest of the world, these people don't commit suicide, they just gather into a big crowd and start protesting, violently.
There is definitely enough money to make work. The goverment just has to be smarter about allocating its budget.
- ahomescu1 13y ago> In the rest of the world, these people don't commit suicide, they just gather into a big crowd and start protesting, violently. In the Eastern Europe protests (Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey), people are protesting political corruption and abuse of authority, not poverty (in fact, I'll go as far as to say that many of the protesters are well-off middle class people, not the starving poor).
- argonaut 13y agoAren't you just backing up the claim (a claim I don't disagree with) that a UBI would work?