Re:Why Should We Support the Idea of an Unconditional Basic ...
by conanbatt on Thursday May 28, 2015 @03:38AM
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Likely the same people, but with a large salary bonus!
If you agree or find reasonable that the incentive to "not work" of BI affects the lowest paying jobs the most, lets go around a few cases.
1) Automatable-minimum wage jobs: today they are not replaced by machinery because its either expensive or through social concern (i.e. Walmart doesnt fire all the cashiers and replace them with automatic ones because of many political, social and some economic measures).
In the world today such automation is not pursued because of its consequences and the marginal profit. If these people stop working, we would quikcly start finding automatic solutions. Bartending, cashiers, some construction, product assembly etc.
I would expect these jobs to dissapear from human hands.
2) Non-automatable jobs: if the minimum wage people drop jobs that are too hard to automate or require a human touch (retail sales, nannies/child care, cleaning?, Garbage management, etc.) lots of people would drop out, which would reduce supply.
So income would increase a lot for those that still do those jobs.
TLDR; decreased supply would increase wages and let this work still happen but it would be more expensive for businesses, and it would push automation.
If you agree or find reasonable that the incentive to "not work" of BI affects the lowest paying jobs the most, lets go around a few cases.
1) Automatable-minimum wage jobs: today they are not replaced by machinery because its either expensive or through social concern (i.e. Walmart doesnt fire all the cashiers and replace them with automatic ones because of many political, social and some economic measures). In the world today such automation is not pursued because of its consequences and the marginal profit. If these people stop working, we would quikcly start finding automatic solutions. Bartending, cashiers, some construction, product assembly etc. I would expect these jobs to dissapear from human hands.
2) Non-automatable jobs: if the minimum wage people drop jobs that are too hard to automate or require a human touch (retail sales, nannies/child care, cleaning?, Garbage management, etc.) lots of people would drop out, which would reduce supply. So income would increase a lot for those that still do those jobs.
TLDR; decreased supply would increase wages and let this work still happen but it would be more expensive for businesses, and it would push automation.