Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

aFoxNamedMorris t1_j0kultb wrote

UBI was never intended to "replace work." It's supposed to be given to everyone regardless of employment status and would be the same sum regardless of other income. You're making an ass of yourself.

87

iusprimaenoctis t1_j0kvv91 wrote

Reads like a boomer's or early gen x neocon's temper tantrum.

39

TheCrimsonDagger t1_j0l6qom wrote

Yeah, this just screams someone who is a workaholic to me. The idea that someone has to have a traditional job to be productive and socially active is incredibly shortsighted. Anything that makes someone feel fulfilled and gives them a purpose is “work”. It doesn’t matter if that is building birdhouses, speedrunning video games, or manually filling out excel spreadsheets.

16

StanielBlorch t1_j0lt0eo wrote

>The idea that someone has to have a traditional job to be productive and socially active is incredibly shortsighted.

Calvinism is the root cause of many a case of misanthropic brain worms.

10

anglesideside1 t1_j0l93c0 wrote

Socialism is a term thrown around too much these days, but that’s literally the definition of socialism.

−1

iusprimaenoctis t1_j0mloos wrote

Is it though? My understanding of socialism would be how a convent functions where wealth is distributed evenly. UBI simply adds a poverty 'floor', people are free to pursue greater personal wealth.

4

cloudrunner69 t1_j0kwoux wrote

One of the biggest problems is people think UBI stands for Universal Basic Income but it stands for Unconditional Basic Income.

7

breaditbans t1_j0lb5h4 wrote

Let’s not be mean about this. IF AI replaces work instead of augmenting work, we will have a lot of unemployed people. But, there will always be work to be done. The AI can’t thread a screw to repair a door knob from 1913. The AI can’t repair a furnace or install insulation. Manual labor is going to be fine.

It’s the administrative assistants that are facing a threat. The middle managers, the accountants and book work people. But these are mostly people with more than two neurons to rub together. They will find other things to do. I suspect we’ll automate the boring stuff and spend our work hours doing the human stuff. Presumably the work hours will be more productive and pay could increase.

0

aFoxNamedMorris t1_j0mezu1 wrote

You are making the assumption that AI (presumably AGI, specifically) will remove all human jobs forever. This is entirely speculative.

2

SCP-Agent-Arad t1_j0ou9t5 wrote

It certainly won’t happen while human labor is cheaper, even if just in the short term. Companies often only care about profits in the next quarter, CEOs don’t tend to care about the success of another CEO 30 years in the future.

1