Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
by robertpateii on Thursday July 30, 2020 @07:39AM
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Are you saying that right now the quality of life for all Americans has reached a its asymptotic limit in regards to productivity?
Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
by WalterBright on Thursday July 30, 2020 @04:27PM
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Lifespan asymptotically approaches biological limits, i.e. the rate of progress inevitably slows.
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I wish people would stop adding such qualifiers to construct strawmen.
Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
by robertpateii on Thursday July 30, 2020 @11:54PM
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Ohhh by “it” you mean lifespan not quality of life or standard of living which are the relevant measurements of what we should be gaining from productivity. I didn’t realize you were going to nit pick a couple of very specific examples among many.
p.s. also didn’t expect you to nit pick examples I gave that I thought would better serve your original point: big life changing stuff has improved. I expected us to move on to discuss what is of major value that we should expect from productivity.
Expected lifespan is quite a bit higher.
You can't expect it to increase at the same rate as productivity, because it asymptotically approaches a limit.
Whether you're happy or not is up to you, not society. People, regardless of their status, tend to be at about the same level of happiness.