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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JAB <here@is.invalid> Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Subject: Re: jobs apocalypse Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 18:01:02 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: <v79ife$224n5$1@dont-email.me> References: <v7953v$1vm0b$1@dont-email.me> <v7961i$781$1@solani.org> Reply-To: JAB <here@is.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 01:01:03 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1a639ef6e5ef604ba23ad5e64923cce5"; logging-data="2167525"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/5Aryr40I/Sj+nGKP61glB" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qxWFJN1guhn2KanNl1Ef93IKIHo= Bytes: 2092 On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:28:50 -0000 (UTC), Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote: >> Money for nothing: is universal basic income about to transform >> society? > >No, it's not. :) Thanks for asking. > >And the reason is, somebody somewhere has to pay - through taxes Henry found out reduced work hours, along with better pay was a good ROI for the business community. If AI/Robotics could eliminate millions of job, existing business infrastructure would take a hit on consumer sales. A few years back, one of the German OEMs reduce the number of robotics on the assembly line so more humans could be employed. Taxation you say, Republicans will have take away those free tax lunches given to the business sector, and our "nobility." ======================= What are the words written on the Statue of Liberty? Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! https://www.bostonfed.org/-/media/Documents/ledger/fall2008/liberty.pdf