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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by sokoloff on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @06:59AM (#11619478)
You're suggesting that people that would be considered "dumb" today will suddenly start inventing automation of street cleaning, trash collection, and the like if we implement a basic income and better education?

That strikes me as an extraordinary claim.

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Re:A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing by spurgu on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @07:29AM (#11619598)
Yeah, it's more like the people owning the waste companies that would try to drive up automation because of the high costs associated with manual labor.
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