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RE: The False Appearance of 'Good' Prevents Action to Change for the Better
This is why I'm so afraid of a 'basic/guaranteed income'...talk about duct tape! Omg...if we give them the power to feed us, we give them the power to starve us, and no one can see, because they just want their problems of today fixed. Very frustrating. Thanks for writing, and publishing your contemplations, you always give me something to rant about haha!
Please keep in mind that in the foreseeable future we have much less jobs, but more people on this planet; all created by robotisation (inevitable, ie a given), and more intelligent AI (inevitable, ie a given). Whether we will start applying basic income, or any other method to allow people without a job to get at least the basics required for a decent living (roof, food, eduction, healthcare) is debatable. But please, don't close the eyes on what is inevitable; for sure technology evolution is inevitable and technology is now testing our economic models, and soon will disrupt our economic models.
Economic new models will be implemented step by step, it's actually already happening but people need to be "trained" to be able to handle such new models. Does this make sense? You can't change to aprupt because it would cause massive chaos. A small part of mankind and our society is waking up....... I have hopes!
That is the only way we can change without super disruption. We need to act fast though, since only a few see the tremendous disruption as being very close by in time. Many of us do not see that, and therefore will not even change, hence we may end up in chaos anyway when not creating and playing the cards of change in a good, and faster way than we do now.
Instead of giving people free fiat money, why not connect people with the land? Give the land back to the people. Give people windmills, and solar panels, ways to live sustainably. Give people seeds, and all the knowledge needed to provide our needs ourselves. The giving of Money, is just more slavery.
Possible!
Pol Pot wanted that and used his extreme methods to get the city people back to become farmers again.
Robots will do all the work, sometime in the future, unless we can jump from one system to another, we need a transition system, that is what basic income is all about in my view. In the future when AI reached singularity and hours later are much more intelligent than humans, we humans do not have to do any work anymore, we can enjoy 24x7 time spend on ourselves, on our loved ones, on doing whatever we want. In my book, when we didn't destroy ourself in whatever way, we will reach the point we do not have to work anymore, nobody, never. But to road to that vision is rocky and we need to find and implement solutions for that.
Note, to some singularity will already be reached in 15years (Ray Kurzwell), most scientist say it'll take this century, a few of that community think AI will never reach singularity. I do think we will reach it, sooner or later, but lets assume sooner than later to be prepared.
Yes, and I'll be preparing my own way, by working growing food, raising animals, trading and bartering with neighbours and trying our best to live as one with the Earth, and our neighbours. Community building is very important.
Absolutely agree community building is very important! :)
Interesting, good point about the UBI hehe. Same with digital currency they are trying to bring, more control over life hehe...