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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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