God, why are people stupid and why don’t these stupid people at least try to get educated? See the following, for example:
With robot labor, cheap wind and solar power, and a shrinking global population, post-2050 human beings could have universally high standards of living. They could put their energies into software creation, biotech, and artistic creativity, which are all sustainable. The stipend generated by robot labor would be a basic income for everyone, but they’d all be free to see if they could generate further income from entrepreneurship or creativity. And that everyone had a basic level of income would ensure that there were buyers for the extra goods or services. This future will depend on something like robot communalism, and an abandonment of racism, so that all members of the commune are equal and integrated into new, sustainable urban spaces.
The idiot who wrote this and who is actually a college professor seems completely unaware that the system he envisions as a utopia did exist. In the USSR, everybody – and I mean 100% of population – was given a basic income by the government that covered the basic necessities and that did not require anybody to work to gain it. Shockingly, the racism in that society remained horrifying. The standards of living were abysmally poor. People were so impacted by the knowledge that they didn’t need to work to cover their basic needs that even now, 20+ years after that system fell apart, they still can’t find in themselves any interest in creativity and entrepreneurship. All everybody wants is to get money for free and do nothing.
It’s been done, it didn’t work, let’s move on already. What needs to happen to convince people once and for all that the Soviet way doesn’t work? A day doesn’t pass when I don’t see at least one post on how great it would be to give everybody a basic stipend. I always hope that the authors of these article are trying to be funny but then discover that they are actually that ignorant.
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