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Re:The “Sharing Economy” Is the Problem by seiji on Monday July 06, 2015 @09:09PM (#9843097)
basic income coming from where?

The idea would be to increase taxes on companies hoarding profits due to increased automation (i.e. "tax the robots and give the money back to displaced humans"). Then you redistribute those profits back to the public by slowly (or quickly) adjusting the social security age down to birth (or age of majority) as revenue from taxing automation increases.

Not going to happen in our current political climate though.

Re:The “Sharing Economy” Is the Problem by prostoalex on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @01:01AM (#9843719)
This only seems to work for the country where such company is headquartered. The technological advantage, meanwhile, spreads to pretty much any country (e.g. countries that had little with invention of television or automobiles have TV sets and roads), so what's the solution for them?
Re:The “Sharing Economy” Is the Problem by dllthomas on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @02:07AM (#9843862)
Include them in the same system.
Re:The “Sharing Economy” Is the Problem by prostoalex on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @02:36AM (#9843926)
Would the numbers add up to anything above trivial?

Alaska has a variable annual payout, and while $1,900 a year is better than $0 a year, it has not led to economic/artistic/scientific revolutions described by basic income proponents.

Re:The “Sharing Economy” Is the Problem by dllthomas on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @11:30AM (#9846032)
"Would the numbers add up to anything above trivial?"

Initially? Probably not for those in developed countries.

The median per-capita household income (per http://www.gallup.com/poll/166211/worldwide-median-household..., as of 2013) is about $3k/yr. For half the people on the planet, $100/yr would make an appreciable difference in their purchasing power (more than 1/3 their monthly income).

Is that a practical amount? $100/yr for every person on the planet is less than 5% of the GDP of the US, and less than 1% of the global GDP (GWP). If the US was going to foot the bill alone (it shouldn't), it would be about a quarter of our tax revenues. Steep, but doesn't sound financially impossible (political and infrastructural issues may well be another matter).