• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    People have been saying machines will eliminate all jobs since the dawn of the industrial revolution.

    Right at this moment there are people that are doing minimum wage jobs that don’t have enough money to survive on. How about we solve the present day problems instead of worrying about the problems of some sci-fi future world? We can worry about the problems of the future in the future you know.

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      5 months ago

      And machines have been eliminating jobs since the dawn of the industrial revolution. We’ve just been finding more jobs that need doing to keep up with that. No guarantee that that treadmill will run forever.

      Right at this moment there are people that are doing minimum wage jobs that don’t have enough money to survive on. How about we solve the present day problems instead of worrying about the problems of some sci-fi future world?

      You contradicted yourself in two sentences. People being unable to survive on what they can earn is a present day problem, not “some sci-fi future world.” The problem that UBI is attempting to solve is already here. It’s just going to grow worse over time.