Posted: Feb 21, 2018 4:32 pm
The most optimistic projections go something like this. When automation really gets into its stride, when machines from the bleeding edge of technology make more and more of us essentially unemployable, calls for something like UBI will become impossible to ignore (even now it's not just voices on the left advocating for this). The moral/psychological link between jobs and human worth will be broken, we'll have a guaranteed income we can live on, and with the increased productivity from hi-tech automation we'll have made inroads into resource scarcity.
But, yes - what Fallible says. The existence of food banks and stressed-out people spending all their nervous energy figuring out how to put some food on the table demonstrates we're a long way off anything like post-scarcity right now. Plus, personal debt is through the roof.
But, yes - what Fallible says. The existence of food banks and stressed-out people spending all their nervous energy figuring out how to put some food on the table demonstrates we're a long way off anything like post-scarcity right now. Plus, personal debt is through the roof.