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Another 200 years. Actually the problem could be solved by reducing the work week. If we have only 20% of the jobs per population we can cut the workweek to one day.
The govt could also side with the companies and just start putting people in camps on a very basic subsitance. People would either be put there from petty crimes (thresholds for felonys will decrease as govt worries about civil war). Also people could sign up to go in a camp to avoid starving etc but they woudl have to keep males and females separate to prevent more kids.
you know, that sounds an awful like what the prison system is... camp with basic subsistence due to committing crime
you know, that sounds an awful like what the prison system is... camp with basic subsistence due to committing crime
Yep, only the thresholds for felonys that get you put there will keep getting more and more pety. That way you dont get a bad rap for human rights violations ... because they are "criminals" after all.
Keeping weed illegal is actually pretty genious because for MOST people weed makes you a useless member of society and if your poping out kids on top of that its best to have those people locked up.
Its not the weed thats the issue its the charachter of like 80% of the people who use it habitually.
Its pure genious. Find out what kind of activities the undesirables engage in, make it illegal and then selectivly enforce it.
How about everyone be given a robot(s), program them to work on a specific task (or more than one)? Then earn money from the robot's tasks? In effect, everyone becomes the supervisor of their own robot. Let's take construction for example. Management may upload the blueprints to the work robot, but they can't be around to supervise each and every millimeter of movement the robot does (i.e. make sure the robot doesn't mess up). The robot does the work, and the human inspects the robot's work.
Still, I admit this may be reaching, for how busy can you be inspecting a robot's work? So I say a basic income is more likely, with perhaps what I describe above being for people who want a bit more than "basic" income. The most workers can hope for is to have a job emphasizing "human" social-emotional skills that robots cannot imitate.
Someone would have to have the financial disapline to save up for their own robot, and actually you can do that right now. CNC machines are proliferating as well as the software to design with.
There are maker spaces poping up all over the place.
How can they get rich when consumers can't/won't be able buy all the products they produce? Those super effieicent robots are going to produce tons of product that will sit in a warehouse, makes total sense derp
It will take a long time before enough people are unemployed before the consume base falls apart. There would have to be something like 50% unemployment before mega corps started feeling the pinch and we would likely have socail unraveling/civil war well before that.
the act of being poor is undesirable enforce poverty with jail time
They are doing that as I type this in my town, it is now a crime to be homless and you will be locked up for it. You should apply for the federal government lol.
They are doing that as I type this in my town, it is now a crime to be homless and you will be locked up for it. You should apply for the federal government lol.
In this article, Elon Musk of Tesla states that in the future that robots will take your jobs and the government will give you a monthly paycheck. There will be some that are given higher statuses if they have the skillsets to program and build robots but the rest of the population will have to live on government handouts.
I only have two words............................... THE MATRIX
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