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2y ago
I don't think this comment makes sense. I'm not asking about your reading of the constitution. I'm trying to get you to admit that you don't care whether people die in poverty, and that you have no reason to think a smal
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2y ago
What does that have to do with my comment? I said: > Note that even if the total number of jobs stays fixed, it doesn't follow that the same people are doing them.
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2y ago
what? I was referring to this part: >as measured by standardized fitness tests executed under the gaze of a well-trained A.I.
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2y ago
Is this a joke? I genuinely can't tell.
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2y ago
I thought the whole point of XML tags coming in named pairs was so you could be helpfully told which tag wasn't closed?
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2y ago
> I expect this to be... an unlikely one On what basis? Do you know how many people die in poverty in countries with no social safety net?
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2y ago
No. Why do you think they would start?
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2y ago
Are you arguing that technology never forces people out of their jobs? Note that even if the total number of jobs stays fixed, it doesn't follow that the same people are doing them. They might end up doing something better, or someth
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2y ago
How is society supposed to function without an underclass of poor and unhealthy wage slaves?
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2y ago
I am begging you to say psych (or sike).
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2y ago
This argument seems to imply that if you had a big red button that would uniformly distribute all the world's resources, that we would be stuck in a steady state and unable to produce anything. This conclusion is obviously false, and I
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2y ago
And what about necessary welfare that isn't covered by private charity? Have you ever seen or heard what life was like before WWII in developed countries? Do you think those people should just die in the street?
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2y ago
From wiki: "Universal basic income (UBI) is a social welfare proposal..." Perhaps this perceived deception is just in your own mind?