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RE: Universal Basic Income = Enslaving Yourself Willingly To Government
in 2019 automating tasks like automatically feeding chickens/pigs/cows/etc saves time. You can still have all the same tech you currently have, I am not advocating we all become Amish and stop using technology.
Yes, but my point is that someone has to work to make and maintain all that technology. That technology likely would never have existed if not for specialization. Even before the industrial revolution there was specialization and it generally improved life for everyone. Not everyone is going to have the time to maintain a farm sufficient to feed yourself and your family and work another job on top of that. It's far more efficient for some people to produce extra food while others work to do other things. Even within farming, it is more efficient to specialize with certain crops or animals. I'm not saying it's impossible to do what you are suggesting but I think it's pretty impractical, especially for the size of population that exists today. Plus it just creates other problems. If your primary source of nutrition is from your own farm, what happens when some unforeseen or unavoidable event ruins your crop or kills your animals?