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Re:Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society? by tempfile on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @10:54AM (#40986584)
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.

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Re:Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society? by imgabe on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @12:08PM (#40987398)
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.
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Re:Can Universal Basic Income Transform Society? by tempfile on Thursday July 18, 2024 @09:12AM (#40995259)
What does that have to do with my comment? I said:

> Note that even if the total number of jobs stays fixed, it doesn't follow that the same people are doing them.

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