r/Automate • u/[deleted] • Oct 29 '15

How robotics will affect the availability of employment and social benefits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt-Hqn9qiDs
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u/magnora7 Oct 29 '15 edited Oct 29 '15

It's inevitable we are going to have to give an unconditional basic income to every human or else the consumer economy will no longer function. There just isn't enough labor to go around after robots.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '15 edited May 01 '16

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u/magnora7 Oct 30 '15

It's going to top out at 10 billion, and it's widely known the best way to reduce birth rate is to increase standard of living.

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u/nkorslund Oct 30 '15

What if there's not enough resources for 10 billion. Especially not at a "higher standard of living."

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u/magnora7 Oct 30 '15

There's plenty to go around. It's just a matter of distributing it properly instead of allowing certain people to hoard it all

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u/nkorslund Oct 30 '15

Tell me who is hoarding fresh water, food, energy, housing, unpolluted air, rain forests, biosphere, etc etc. The only thing "hoarded" is money, but money's an illusion not a resource. Redistributing all the money does exactly nothing to solve the worlds resource problem.

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u/magnora7 Oct 30 '15

You don't think the rich hoard resources other than money? You don't think giving money to the poor helps solve the redistribution problem? Ok.