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In reply to the discussion: This City Eliminated Poverty, And Nearly Everyone Forgot About It - HuffPo [View all]The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)Robots doing all the grunt work, and human beings doing even more work and consuming all the luxuries of production? That's just adding another layer.
I'm saying it will happen eventually. When the robots replace work, it's either going to be a basic income, or a lot of dead/starving/angry people. I'm just saying, no matter what we've ever chosen, there are downsides.
There are a lot of people on the planet. Each and every one of us won't simply pursue our labors of love as we blissfully co-exist and dance with each other and all of life. You give people even more free time, and you'll get some weird shit going on. Just look at what people can manage to do with the free time civilization has given us the ability to have over the last few thousand years.
And I don't know what the true purpose in life is. I doubt there is one. Different for different people. Which is why I would think not everything would be rosy with a basic income. Just look at what the banksters with trillions of dollars can do.