MonkeyParadiso OP t1_j885tus wrote on February 12, 2023 at 10:30 AM

Reply to comment by TheSensibleTurk in Question: what are the best answers you've seen to what could be done when AI starts replacing labour en masse in and across industries? by MonkeyParadiso

No, I don't think that's necessary. Just say in America, we pick ourselves up by our own bootstraps, this is not a welfare state.. Adam Smith.. QEd. And go on with your merry way. We're already doing it and it's scalable :) Starving, disconnected social outcasts don't make for good revolutionaries; I believe it's all already codified in the Rules for Rulers Playbook

TheSensibleTurk t1_j886atf wrote on February 12, 2023 at 10:37 AM

America very much is a welfare state. You don't even need to be a citizen to qualify for a variety of aid programs. As we saw in the SOTU speech, the otherwise fiscally conservative GOP balks at the prospect of cutting social security or sunsetting other welfare programs.

MonkeyParadiso OP t1_j8csldu wrote on February 13, 2023 at 10:13 AM

I can't argue with the trillions of $$$ spent on the bailouts of 2008 and corporate subsidies before & since.