Re:Universal basic income: A nonprofit is about to test it i...
by norea-armozel on Monday April 18, 2016 @09:06AM
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Well I agree but if you want the world to be like the Mall of America where you can buy just about anything then you have to turn it all over to machines. Basically, we have to become like the people in Wall-E. Always consuming, never really thinking, and the majority of decisions being made by machines. I'm not saying I want that future, but you can't continue down the path of the excesses of consumerism without paying the price in some way (loss of personal autonomy to machines is one price of many to pay).
Re:Universal basic income: A nonprofit is about to test it i...
by mason240 on Monday April 18, 2016 @09:52AM
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With a UBI/capitalist economy, you would still have monetary constraints on the individual consumers (just like today) and there would still be monetary constraints on raw materials/commodities (just like today).
That is subjecting ourselves from total control of the machines from the bare start.
Not saying this automation is inherently bad - it may be much better than any alternative - but simply automating away throws away all the diversity that can help us get into a good system.