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Comment Re:Don't raise wages. Demand lower prices. (Score 1) 870

Yea i am in favor of this also. Everyone gets a basic income. Everyone. If you get a job you pay tax, but still have this basic income. The idea is you don't need a massive Social system that probably spends more money working if you are allowed unemployment etc, than if just everyone got the base income.

Also if we believe some of the above posts. Some people are so stupid we should not give them a job since they are crap at everything and it would be cheaper to give them a base income, and let the machine do the job anyway.

Comment Re:Who'll spit on my burger?! (Score 2) 870

You know what else! Buggy whip manufactures are all out of business as we speak. Oh wait we don't want those anyway. Ah, i got it. Potato pickers are all out of work. Work where they would intereact with each other and have income. And now all replaced by a few machines. Rise up and, wait what?

The idea that we need to keep menial unsatisfying jobs around to "keep people employed" is stupid. Seriously stupid. If your version of human interaction is ordering a bugger at McD's you are a sad person.

If this is what you want. Join the Amish.

Comment Re:It's the end of the world as we know it (Score 1) 703

Then why is CO2 is added to greenhouses to increase growth rate of crops? Depending on local conditions growth is limited by one factor (basic ecology). Where there is sun and its not too cold ie in the summer for large parts of earth, it is typically CO2 limited for many plants. Even now at 400pm there is very little CO2 is the air. That is a lot of diffusion to absorb a decent amount.

Comment Re:We've gone beyond bad science (Score 1) 703

Like hell they are. What is done in these highly politicized reports, is take the 5% extreme case, say in California and report that. Then take the 5% most extreme case in NY and report that.. So on and so forth. Now even if these "confidence" things could be interpreted as probability of the event occurring, which they can't. They present all of these 5% things all over the world as if that is what could happen, while even with this poor interpretation of data, its a million to one that even a dozen of these predictions to come true. Its total misrepresentation of the model/data at best and scientifically dishonest.

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