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Re:Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driv... by FeepingCreature on Saturday May 16, 2015 @08:48AM (#9555899)
> Getting money for not doing anything

Getting money for being a member of society*. After all, we already don't let people starve.

> The way to do it is probably paying only to the unemployed.

A lot of people think so, but this is actually a subtly terrible idea because it strongly incentivizes being unemployed.

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Re:Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driv... by zo1 on Saturday May 16, 2015 @01:23PM (#9556871)
>"Getting money for being a member of society. After all, we already don't let people starve.*"

Are you sure about that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_in_the_United_States

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Re:Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driv... by FeepingCreature on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @06:17AM (#9568991)
Yep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_in_Germany

:-)

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