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Economy

Squinch

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1. Automation was SUPPOSED to give us all more leisure. Instead it has given a thousand

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Wed Feb 22, 2017, 09:12 AM

Feb 2017

people more money than they could possibly spend if they lived lavishly for a million years, and put the rest of us on a gerbil wheel struggling for survival.

And that's only going to get worse.

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Yes, automation will be a problem. [View all] DetlefK Feb 2017 OP

Automation was SUPPOSED to give us all more leisure. Instead it has given a thousand Squinch Feb 2017 #1

Just wait until factory-owners no longer have to pay any wages. DetlefK Feb 2017 #2

Yep. And we STILL won't have a national minimum wage. Squinch Feb 2017 #3

Tech CEOs back call for basic income as AI job losses threaten industry backlash HAB911 Feb 2017 #4

Basic Income sustains status quo inequality ParanoidFactoid Feb 2017 #5