Saturday, March 17, 2018

Robots & Universal Basic Income

I hate this kind of development. Robots shouldn't be allowed to do some human jobs. Like this flippy or the check out line at the store. Give the robots hazardous jobs. They can go flip something in an environment humans can't go. Otherwise flipping burgers is not a good reason to put humans on the street and in poverty.

They said that automation would free humans from drudgery. That is true in a lot of ways, but the freedom from drudgery isn't so sweet when you can't pay your bills, or buy groceries to feed your kids.

Either prohibit robots from doing some jobs, or enact a Universal Basic Income (UBI) to compensate our hard working humans who have been displaced by machines. Place a tax on the Hours of Operation of robotic workers to help pay for the UBI. Nationalize all natural resources of materials and energy to help pay for the UBI.