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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by TrinaryWorksToo on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @09:55PM (#23993562)
Yeah, we don't need people to work. This will incentivize people to automate work where possible. The ideal world is everything is automated and EVERYONE benefits, vs what we have now: much is automated and the rich benefit while others have to work shit jobs or die.
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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by refurb on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @10:25PM (#23993783)
Automate everything? Who builds and repairs the robots?

And who gets stuck with that job when everyone else doesn’t have to work?

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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by d2v on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @10:40PM (#23993910)
I'll do it. Building robots sounds dope. I'd imagine a good chunk of people on HN would love to live in a post scarcity society where they can spend their time building and repairing robots.
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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by refurb on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @10:45PM (#23993967)
Thanks for volunteering! Gonna need you to come in for a 12 hour day since no once else is available. It’s your spouses birthday? That sucks. Maybe next year!

Sounds like a gun to your head.

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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by bencoder on Thursday July 30, 2020 @04:30AM (#23995864)
If that's your conditions I'll quit because I'm not desperate for the job... because of UBI
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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by refurb on Thursday July 30, 2020 @09:43PM (#24004823)
So now we’re stuck again - who repairs the robots?
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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by TrinaryWorksToo on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @10:33PM (#23993859)
If everything is automated, there would be no repair jobs as robots would self-repair.
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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by refurb on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @10:44PM (#23993949)
Who repairs the self-repair robots when they need repair?
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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by leetcrew on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @10:50PM (#23994009)
I'm as skeptical as you are, but presumably if we could make robots that were capable of repairing themselves, they could also repair other robots?
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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by TrinaryWorksToo on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:33PM (#23994337)
They could repair themselves.
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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by refurb on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:42PM (#23994383)
This is so distant in the future that it’s almost not worth the discussion.

Maybe we can pick this up 100 years from now.

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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by TrinaryWorksToo on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:45PM (#23994407)
Well my question is: Is this the goal? Or do we want one person to own all of the means of production, and have everyone else get nothing?
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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by goatlover on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:58PM (#23994498)
The robots will paper clip everything before then.
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