A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage

Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by ThomPete on Monday April 04, 2016 @04:26PM (#11425288)

Well you are entitled to that opinion but I frankly don't see where you find the evidence that this is political.

Every country in the west wether socialist leaning or capitalist leaning is experiencing exactly the same problems.

Uber is affecting all countries the same way. Technology is disrupting even the nationstate and it's ability to control it politically.

And yes there are plenty of reasons why you couldn't bring back the jobs because even in China they are not really there anymore.

The Chinese are loosing jobs to the robots in ever expanding phase.

So yes you can get production back but it wont be coming with any jobs.

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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by crdoconnor on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @06:07AM (#11429216)

>Well you are entitled to that opinion

And you're entitled to believe in the coming androidjobpocalypse.

>The Chinese are loosing jobs to the robots

Would love to see what sort of anecdotes you come up with for this gem.

It's a convenient fairy tale - pretending that reversing the trade deals that sent 5-10 million jobs overseas wouldn't matter anyway because strong AI is going to steal those returning jobs. Just a little light on evidence.

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