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| Topic | What do conservatives plan to do about automation? |
| JRaasin 04/06/17 1:31:57 PM #34: | Gojak_v3 posted... I'm more interested to hear what liberals are gonna do. It's easy to say universal basic income. The fact is if you give every man woman and child 20K a year that's 6.4 trillion dollars a year. That's just about double what ALL government (state and federal) takes in in a year. I'd love to hear how they are gonna swing that. Not to mention 20k is likely not enough. you're right. I don't really identify as a liberal but I assume their argument is that automation will increase overall wealth, and you don't need to pay every man women and child, just the people who automation has displaced. But then the problem arises where there's no incentive for people to go into skilled work that robots can't do if they can just sit around and collect welfare. But at least UBI is a plan that acknowledges that automation is going to be a problem whereas conservatives just seem to deny it will happen (as evidenced by this thread). --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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