Comment Re:Amazon betrayed us (Score 1) 161
Because that all crawls towards universal basic income (of which there has never been an unsuccessful trial, and which always results in people being better humans, spending wisely, etc. basically).
Universal basic income means that you are no longer tied into generating profit in order to then spend your wages generating profit. UBI means that someone has to pay a robot AND you.
You're just a product, and governments have no interest in treating you otherwise (tax, etc.) . Even those places with universal healthcare - it's there to keep you in the workforce longer and put off paying out your pension. Because that generates a profit, and nothing else does.
Amazon are no different in this regard, and never have been. There are huge amounts of stories of how they exploit their workers and treat them like machines built for profit.
You won't have anything like your ideal while things like "taxes" and "jobs" are even a thing. Not until all the price tags disappear from stores, and stores disappear from being the places to exchange goods, and goods are produced without human input.
You're talking hundreds, if not thousands of years away, and that has absolutely no guarantee.
As other people have pointed out many times - we're now automating art and music and literature (things that humans are better at, and do for leisure and enjoyment), while the actual humans are still working jobs that kill them. Because there's no profit in you being allowed to have a hobby that makes you feel human. Better to crush all that out of your soul, monetise it and then sell a poor imitation back to you.
I could be replaced by a script in an instant - all that has to happen is Microsoft has to make self-managing networks that people can deploy with a few clicks, and believe me they're trying to remove people like me already.
All that would happen when they succeed is I'd be out of a job, the networks wouldn't be what people actually wanted (only what was granted to them), and there'd be no help for anyone to cope with that situation.