ColdLightOfDay
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So frustrating how many idiots didn’t even read this post and just stated pointing to the failings of communism throughout the 20th century.
You think the social democracy most of us enjoy now was possible in the 18th century or 19th centuries? The coming century will be most transformative in human history, it will look extremely different to what we have now and we will face a host of new problems as the ones we have faced for millennia are finally overcome.
UBI in a post-labour world is not the same as the Marxist model for ‘communism’ in which the centralisation of workers is the predominant feature. There won’t even be any fucking workers, that is the point.
A society where industry is entirely automated will have to be entirely different to one in which industrial production is still driven by human man-power.
The detractors here aren’t considering that UBI will be a reaction to this automation, if you are going to be disparaging of it then you will need to think of another solution, otherwise you will have mass starvation of the general population while a small group of elites sit and watch the world burn from their techno-ivory towers.
You think the social democracy most of us enjoy now was possible in the 18th century or 19th centuries? The coming century will be most transformative in human history, it will look extremely different to what we have now and we will face a host of new problems as the ones we have faced for millennia are finally overcome.
UBI in a post-labour world is not the same as the Marxist model for ‘communism’ in which the centralisation of workers is the predominant feature. There won’t even be any fucking workers, that is the point.
A society where industry is entirely automated will have to be entirely different to one in which industrial production is still driven by human man-power.
The detractors here aren’t considering that UBI will be a reaction to this automation, if you are going to be disparaging of it then you will need to think of another solution, otherwise you will have mass starvation of the general population while a small group of elites sit and watch the world burn from their techno-ivory towers.