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22. The answer is a guaranteed minimum income because most jobs will be automated away, eventually.

Sat Jun 25, 2016, 10:42 PM

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You cannot vote globalization and technology away without hurting yourself even more [View all] Yavin4 Jun 2016 OP

Your argument is circular. bemildred Jun 2016 #1

People freely make those choices with their wallets sufrommich Jun 2016 #4

People vote freely too. nt bemildred Jun 2016 #5

Yes they did,we made our own bed.nt sufrommich Jun 2016 #7

It's a clusterfuck of epic proportions. nt sufrommich Jun 2016 #14

Air - Water - Food SoLeftIAmRight Jun 2016 #2

I will be a long and painful period before the developed nations sufrommich Jun 2016 #3

Of course runaway hero Jun 2016 #8

It's at a cost to our middle class,the middle class in developing sufrommich Jun 2016 #11

I agree runaway hero Jun 2016 #15

The problem is that emerging countries learned their lesson well, sufrommich Jun 2016 #17

Of course, and when it got too expensive here runaway hero Jun 2016 #18

I fear we'll grow dumber before we grow smarter. Panic does sufrommich Jun 2016 #19

It isn't just xenophobia runaway hero Jun 2016 #20

Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2016 #6

Eventually when they outsource all the jobs, and we are paying runaway hero Jun 2016 #9

Actually, looking another 10 to 20 years into the future lapfog_1 Jun 2016 #12

but you can consume with your eyes wide open dembotoz Jun 2016 #13

Anything else is re-arranging deck chairs Recursion Jun 2016 #23