Those seem incompatible to me.

(UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)

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[–] 17 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

In a cool universe maybe, but realistically it's just gonna mean line goes up faster for the people at the top, while employees and customers see little/none of the rewards. That's how automation has always been: workers do the same amount of work for the same pay while producing more, customers maybe get a slight discount, the execs get a few mil/bil in bonuses. Without a hell of a lot of strikes and government intervention I doubt there's any other way for it to go

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Let's not pretend government intervention is gonna happen, except to make things worse for workers.

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    You mean like the european initiative developing a new strategy for taxation, as it is already recognized the way AI and other aggressive automation practices diminishes the tax revenue for social services?

    The likes of Musk can't shake off the wolves much more.

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    Yeah, it's funny watching people like me fail.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No, it's just that if you quit, the other side wins. And unlike yourself, I'll risk, the other part is not a good bunch.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    If I don't quit, they win too. It's easy for you to tell me not to quit.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fine. You want to quit? Do it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Fine. You want to act like what I'm doing is easy because you already got yours? You're already doing it. I don't want to quit. I'm just not great at endurance after decades of fruitless labor.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Good. I don't also want you to quit.

    It is tiresome. Extremely. But quitting is dying. Is giving up on ourselves, on tomorrow. On something better, that we personally may not be able to enjoy, but nonetheless worthy of our toilling.

    We have been played and toyed with, told we are worthless, small, a nothing. But we are not.

    I can't solve your personal problems but I can emphatize with you, with your tiredness, your frustration, your anger, your sadness, your whatever. Because I am as human as you and I do not want you to feel alone. I can be as bad or worst than you but right now you need more than myself to know there are others in the world that feel as you feel.

    You are not alone.

    It hurts. Its hard. But you are alive and that by itself is better than not be alive. If we lay down and quit, we lose ourselves. We matter.

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