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Re:The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income by imustbeevil on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @08:21PM (#34347787)
"Robots farm all the food and build all the houses. The government owns the robots. We don't owe the robots or the government anything."

"People are going to produce things because they gain status from communicating their ideas to others. Obviously no one needs money for these attention and status based economies to perpetuate themselves efficiently".

We aren't in post-scarcity yet, for sure. But it's a weird lack of creativity that finds people stuck using Roman currency in the year 3,000.

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