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Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco by chii on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @09:59PM (#30863075)
The cost of UBI isn't low: so let me ask - what's the cost of retraining those displaced by automation to another job? Is it more, or less than the cost of UBI?

Why is it assumed, a priori, that those displaced people cannot be retrained for some other useful job?

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Re:Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco by tomc1985 on Thursday March 31, 2022 @11:50AM (#30868546)
Because we will be destroying way more jobs than will be making and more than will be available. It will be highly disruptive to other labor markets and will cause a race to the bottom for workers' salaries.
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