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Re:You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot and Sooner Than You Think by ameister14 on Monday November 06, 2017 @09:39AM (#15635726)
Sure, but with a universal income that barely keeps them above water, they will continue to spend everything they get and drive the main consumer economy.
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Re:You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot and Sooner Than You Think by bolololo1 on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @03:59AM (#15641900)
So we can say that universal income is just a way of keeping people 'alive' to let corporation earn the money - just like slaves were kept alive to do things for free.
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Re:You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot and Sooner Than You Think by ameister14 on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @07:08AM (#15642689)
No, I don't think it's 'just' that, but it's definitely one of the purposes of it.
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