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Political leaders cannot advocate alternatives like a guaranteed income for everyone, only so long as the people fail to demand such measures. The history of t

Political leaders cannot advocate alternatives like a guaranteed income for everyone, only so long as the people fail to demand such measures. The history of technology is a long progression of jobs that we don't have to do anymore, freeing us up to both achieve more complicated tasks, and to require fewer hours of human energy to achieve a certain level of pleasant life for everyone. McDonalds cook, taxi driver, self driver, brick layer, so many jobs today are just on the edge of being unnecessary, and that is a great thing. Those people would be much happier, and society as a whole much safer, if we just gave all these people the money they need to live, and simply ask that they contribute a little civic participation (talk to some old people, supervise children, etc).

zaroth 12y ago
> Those people would be much happier, and society as a whole much safer, if we just gave all these people the money they need to live, and simply ask... The money they need to live? So... from cradle to grave "these people" should simply be given all the food, clothing, shelter, education, entertainment, transportation, etc. that they need and no need to earn any of it? I assume the plan is to confiscate the money from the other people, the ones that worked for about a century investing their money into developing the technology, processes, and software to bring that level of AI into the world. Pour money into the bottom, it's spent through the system, confiscate it at the top, rinse, repeat? This doesn't work because it turns out if you can't actually keep the money you earn, you tend not to bother earning it.