People saying with a straight face that job retraining is the solution to the impending job automation crisis yet we are kicking and screaming just to get white women treated fairly in tech.
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The automation crisis, btw, started 40 years ago and we're about to see a new inflection point.pic.twitter.com/S5nxzKSVUi
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I think corporations should be taxed on the degree to which they automate to provide UBI. If there were UBI and universal healthcare, can you imagine the creativity that could happen? Or you know, so many more cat videos.
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the problem with a tax on automation is that it incentivises wasting peoples lives doing jobs that could be automated why not a tax on all capital instead
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That works, too. I just think that corporations should compensate in some way. Or full-time work should be more like 30 hours/week instead of 40, part-time work should be encouraged, and healthcare shouldn’t be linked to employment.
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I think 0 hour work week and everyone should have their basic needs met unconditionally
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Best case scenario
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maybe UBI is coming
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I've convinced myself that, if it does arrive, UBI will be a wealth-transfer mechanism, at least in housing: if UBI will merely give me rent-money rather than mortgage-money, it's a pretty obvious result.
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its a terrifying eventuality. Either it gets fixed, or everyone gets riots.
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and UBI will also prolly be only breadcrumbs enough to suppress a revolution for the democratic transfer of the means of production into the hands of the people
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UBI seems like the only answer to me.
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(and free healthcare)
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