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Re:Big Tech’s View of Universal Basic Income Is Deeply Flawed by zqfm on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:36PM (#17543144)
> mounting a massive Plato's Cave-like conspiracy to convince people they are doing something useful

Maybe I'm missing something but I feel like that's what most of us are doing now anyway.

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Re:Big Tech’s View of Universal Basic Income Is Deeply Flawed by eeZah7Ux on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:59PM (#17543412)
Spot on.

Apart from so-called "bullshit jobs" that are spreading in the richest countries, how much work is mostly unnecessary, easy to avoid or to automate away?

With "unnecessary" I mean that don't add much to the human experience.

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Re:Big Tech’s View of Universal Basic Income Is Deeply Flawed by bandrami on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:37PM (#17544333)
No, you're exactly right
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