The automation/AI/robotics news lately is not a meme. It's purposeful propaganda to trick people into accepting universal income by making them think most jobs will be gone in the near future.
Automation is a meme
Michael Perry
Michael Foster
That would be retarded because ubi could only happen IF automation is true. Otherwise it's impossible.
Eli Wright
I don't think people are wrong to be concerned about automation eroding the number of jobs available and the massive spike in unemployment however I think there has generally been a lot of fear-mongering and people have made it sound like 50% of all jobs would be automated within the next decade or something ridiculous like that.
I have no doubt that automation will replace most human jobs at some point but I don't believe that point is in the immediate future. I think we have at least several decades before we even hit the 50% point. Maybe even a century or so. Beyond that even just a little bit of public backlash against automation can probably retard progress on it even longer.
I think the automation issue has been significantly overblown and while we should be starting to consider how to adapt our economy for when most jobs are automated it is a fairly low priority and changes don't need to be made right this second.
Gabriel Foster
UBI is the the deathbed of humanity.
Once you're completely dependent you lose all power. The governing masters can just cut off everyone's income and we'll have no way to resist.
Lincoln Diaz
Easton Ramirez
>vast numbers of people over the age of 35 can't operate a smartphone
You're kidding me right now
Blake Edwards
>all NEETs would [go along with UBI only] probably all of /r9k/ too
Probably nearly all of /r9k/ would accept it, but even there I doubt the majority would actually prefer it.
The right to a government job (with flexible hours) would be preferable for most NEETs, and would be better value for the government.
Dominic Parker
Unless you live innawoods and only eat what you kill you're already pretty much 100% reliant on the machinations of government to survive.
Asher Richardson
>muh automatic cars
Driving your car to work is not a job, that's why no one is rushing to automate it. Your job will be automated first, which renders having a car pointless as you'll have nowhere to go.
Nathan Cook
Yes but currently the government is still somewhat dependent on me and everyone else for tax revenue.
If I pay no taxes, have no job, and produce no labor, then I have exactly zero leverage over the person paying my basic income.