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fenderbender321 posted...

There will always be jobs, and if people aren't working they won't be able to afford a lifestyle outside of bare essential surviving. Automation and UBI will not change that at all.

In fact, the idea that automation is going to eliminate jobs is completely silly. The only models suggesting that are faulty ones that assume the amount of economic output that can be completed is finite. At some point, there will always be a need and a price for human labor, and businesses who don't employ it will be outperformed by those that do. We've seen this as technology has improved over and over and over again.

As such, UBI is pretty pointless.

That's not true. Industrialization was the first massive shift in labor relations due to technology (well, at least since the invention of farming). Firms as we think of them didn't even exist, because people were in a guild or subsistence farming.

I. don't think automaton will get rid of work in the sense of productive labor people are. willing to purchase, but it might end employment as we currently experience it
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