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Re:American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots by naveen99 on Sunday August 07, 2016 @10:44PM (#12245155)
Can we get a televised debate between you and yummyfajitas ?

I agree with both of you, though one is for and other against UBI.

I suggest a compromise. A linear increase in ubi from 0 to sustainable. I think going straight to sustainable is a little too drastic all of a sudden. It's like if we invented teleportation. That would destroy trucking faster than AI. But it would be chaos too.

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Re:American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots by morgante on Sunday August 07, 2016 @10:52PM (#12245183)
> Can we get a televised debate between you and yummyfajitas ?

Call the networks. :)

> A linear increase in ubi from 0 to sustainable.

I agree that going straight to UBI would be impractical, both politically and economically. My preferred approach would be a step function: we eliminate one entitlement program at a time, and replace it with a corresponding amount of UBI.

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