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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Will we need a basic income in the future?
 
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ChairMaster
Aug 22, 2009

by R. Guyovich

Quidam Viator posted:

I'm trying to make some sense out of this shitshow of a thread, because I will freely admit that I am no expert on this situation.

Somebody directly answer this question: Do we expect the rate of technological progress to slow in an appreciable way that will stem the now-centuries-old process of the devaluation of human labor? If not, how can anyone imagine human labor continuing to have value as our technology is increasingly outpacing all human endeavors in terms of productivity, efficiency, and reliability?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/science/century-long-study-will-examine-effects-of-artificial-intelligence.html?_r=1

I certainly can't.

I also can't really figure out what people's solution to that problem is gonna be, if not a basic income. I mean I imagine someone's proposed something in one of these huge rear end posts, but I'm certainly not up to the task of finding it. The only other solution I can think of is something like "employ half the population as police to beat the poo poo out of the other half who all have no jobs or money at all". I guess it'd work, but I dunno if anyone's gonna actually get behind that without some pretty obfuscating language at least.

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