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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 02:24 PM Apr 2018

It's Time for Technology to Serve all Humankind with Unconditional Basic Income

Source: Medium, by Scott Santens





Imagine a year where what we’ve long taken for granted, that technology destroys jobs but also creates new and better jobs, is discovered to no longer be true. Instead, machines permanently displace human labor, and what new jobs are created, are mostly worse jobs.

An ever decreasing percentage of the population is employed, and for a majority of those left in the labor market, incomes decrease, hours worked increase, monthly income variance grows more extreme, time between jobs grows, jobs themselves become more akin to tasks, employer-provided benefits become more rare, and the bonds that hold society together begin to fray as inequality grows ever more extreme.

What year do you predict such a future comes to pass? 2030? 2040? 2050 and beyond if even then?

The answer will vary nation by nation, but in the US, the answer is right around 1990. Yes, it already happened. It’s not in the future. It’s in the past.

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Read the rest at: https://medium.com/basic-income/its-time-for-technology-to-serve-all-humankind-with-unconditional-basic-income-e46329764d28






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It's Time for Technology to Serve all Humankind with Unconditional Basic Income (Original Post) yallerdawg Apr 2018 OP
Those pics remind me of the difference between working environments at places like Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #1
Another reason Union jobs and power... yallerdawg Apr 2018 #2
K & R. Good piece on this huge issue now facing humanity. appalachiablue Apr 2018 #3

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
1. Those pics remind me of the difference between working environments at places like
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 02:46 PM
Apr 2018

Microsoft or Google, etc., vs your local office owned by some rightwing asshole.

One environment is designed on purpose to make employees as miserable as possible and one does the opposite.

Wonder which one results in greater productivity, no I dont.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
2. Another reason Union jobs and power...
Mon Apr 30, 2018, 03:07 PM
Apr 2018

is disappearing.

Robots only need a squirt of oil. Bosses really like that!

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