Re:Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
by tempfile on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @10:54AM
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Are you arguing that technology never forces people out of their jobs?
Note that even if the total number of jobs stays fixed, it doesn't follow that the same people are doing them. They might end up doing something better, or something much worse, or just die and get replaced by a new generation with different skills. There are many examples from history going in either direction.
Re:Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society?
by imgabe on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @12:08PM
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The total number of jobs increases. Logically, it has to. Population increases. There are more people now than there were in the past and there is not massive unemployment, so there must be more jobs than there were before.
Has anyone actually lost their job to AI yet? At best it helps some workers do their jobs faster as many innovations in the past have. Historically, this increases the amount of work expected to coincide with the capacity for doing work.
For example, CAD software replaced hand drafting. This didn't remove jobs, clients just expected things to be designed faster and in greater detail than they were before.
Maybe before we start patting ourselves on the back and handing out free money we should have a concrete example of an AI doing actual useful work without any human intervention.