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> the US worker is ..effed Work is almost over. Good riddance to it. Why shouldn't everyone benefit from the fruits of full automation? > We are going to hav
by iak8god 11y ago
> the US worker is ..effed
Work is almost over. Good riddance to it. Why shouldn't everyone benefit from the fruits of full automation?
> We are going to have ... the super low wage unskilled laborers in a race to the bottom, trying to compete with machines, and a huge, empty nothing in the middle between those groups... and there will be large-scale civil unrest, even in the US, within the next 30 years, I'm betting on it.
That is largely up to the people who now have all the money and power. If they are shortsighted enough to take entirely for themselves the wealth the machines create - rather than using it to guarantee basic security for everyone - then we're in for rough times. I'm betting with you on that one.
- ori_b 11y ago> Why shouldn't everyone benefit from the fruits of full automation? They should, but: >That is largely up to the people who now have all the money and power. And that's why they won't. At least not until their poverty destabilizes the economy. It's expensive and reduces profits for the people making the decisions, at least in the short run.
- Apocryphon 11y agoNow is the time to make the concept of a basic minimum income mainstream.