Comment Re: Cry me a river. (Score 1) 100
Then they will do something else. Where does this line of reasoning end, just stopping innovation to preserve raw labor numbers?
Logically, with UBI. You can shut down all the social programs which it supersedes and their administration, take it back from people who don't need it through the IRS without any substantial changes, and pay for it through taxation on the wealthy — thereby creating more money by increasing its velocity.
Yes there were people who were left behind [most notably in agriculture] but on balance humans' quality of life is dramatically better.
Yes, and what I want the system to do instead of encouraging some wealthy people to play a game of increasing some numbers in ways which don't even affect their lives, and they are only doing for bragging rights, is share more of the available improvements in quality of life with more people.
I am far from against technology. I am against it destroying everything that we all universally enjoy, things like being able to eat and sleep and breathe and shit comfortably. Every world war is more dangerous to the continued existence of our way of life than the last, and we appear to be on the cusp of one. And for what? Once again, so that the worst old men the world could produce can play some games with others' lives. Does it not make sense that instead of allowing these rich old fucks to kill us, we should share the wealth more when that actually creates more wealth? How are we going in completely the wrong direction again?
