I'm glad my children and grandchildren will never have to do dehumanizing BS jobs for subsistence. Automation & BI can't come soon enough.https://twitter.com/thedansimonson/status/808813751273197568 …
130 years ago, millions of kids worked in coal mines. 260 years ago, ~90% of kids worked in the fields. But tell me how automation is evil.
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nothing against automation. automation is great! but we continue to live in a system that withholds the benefits to a few
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also don't underestimate the influence of the labor movement, not automation alone, on improving working conditions
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Automation is far from evil but it will have a significant negative impact on a lot of people without something like BI.
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It's not post-scarcity until most people no longer feel the effects of scarcity. Even if that scarcity is artificially imposed.
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but theres no reason or guarantee that we will see a Basic Income instead of a handful of Trillionaires and billions of poor.
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Today millions work at McDonalds or in factories making iPhones. Real wages in the US are at '60s levels. Automation fixes nothing
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See David Noble study on computer controlled machines, could have been controlled by workers but wasn't. Same with automation.
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Things are better, but can also think of a lot of downsides. Here's one: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/health/us-suicide-rate-surges-to-a-30-year-high.html …
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This is an interesting take at the jobs & automation topic you mentioned https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18211165-who-owns-the-future …
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