Re:The U.S. economy is killing off the middle class
by zaroth on Saturday January 31, 2015 @02:10PM
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> Those people would be much happier, and society as a whole much safer, if we just gave all these people the money they need to live, and simply ask...
The money they need to live? So... from cradle to grave "these people" should simply be given all the food, clothing, shelter, education, entertainment, transportation, etc. that they need and no need to earn any of it?
I assume the plan is to confiscate the money from the other people, the ones that worked for about a century investing their money into developing the technology, processes, and software to bring that level of AI into the world. Pour money into the bottom, it's spent through the system, confiscate it at the top, rinse, repeat?
This doesn't work because it turns out if you can't actually keep the money you earn, you tend not to bother earning it.
The money they need to live? So... from cradle to grave "these people" should simply be given all the food, clothing, shelter, education, entertainment, transportation, etc. that they need and no need to earn any of it?
I assume the plan is to confiscate the money from the other people, the ones that worked for about a century investing their money into developing the technology, processes, and software to bring that level of AI into the world. Pour money into the bottom, it's spent through the system, confiscate it at the top, rinse, repeat?
This doesn't work because it turns out if you can't actually keep the money you earn, you tend not to bother earning it.