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Re:Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move... by loceng on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:04PM (#26628831)
Quite the unsupported fantasy you've put forward - sounds similar to the argument that once people have enough money they'll stop working, so better pay them only enough to survive - until you include billionaires into the equation, who don't stop working when they have enough to live for 1,000s of years.
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Re:Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move... by AlexTWithBeard on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:10PM (#26628910)
Billionaires are crazy kind of folks.

To realize what people are going to do when they don't have to work, look at those in retirement: gardening, choir singing, lotto may be?

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Re:Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move... by marakv2 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:15AM (#26631206)
So disappointed that batman/social reform was never realised by those folk.
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Re:Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move... by maskedoffender on Monday March 29, 2021 @07:00PM (#26629387)
Right, billionaires will do whatever they can to earn more, including leaving a country with high tax rates.

But a lot of people if guaranteed a minimal quality of living would just stop working and do things that they like (that don't necessarily make money) and that's the whole point of UBI.

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Re:Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move... by SamoyedFurFluff on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:23PM (#26630981)
Doing things that they like would still be working. They just don’t have to engage in rat race jobs anymore. They can have the dignity a billionaire has.
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