Finland's result on its UBI experiment: people don't shirk work. And it increases trust, health & wellbeing

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[–]jtriangle 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think that UBI might be necessary when the robots get good enough to unemploy the bottom 2/3 of the workforce, at least for long enough to re-educate people where it's reasonable.

It flies in the face of my overarching political ideology, I just don't see an easy way out with how things are going with automation. The age we're headed into is without precedence.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Who's going to pay for those robots? The rich would rather keep their money and power and if they built robots it would be for robots that bring them more wealth or services, not robots to serve the poor.