Yeah but the accountant, the product manager, the graphics designer, the engineer, the doctor, the lawyer are fucked.

Good thing we have plumbers. But who’s gonna have money to pay a plumber if nobody has jobs?

HPsquared 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The government will receive like 40% of whatever value the robots produce.

	▲	ben_w 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It might. One potential failure mode is the owners of the robots doing something that echoes words Musk himself has used: "robot army". Who is sovereign in this future? The government? The people? The bosses of the AI/robotics companies? The owners of equipment bought from the AI/robotics companies? The implicit learned biases of the AI itself, even if the trainers have since died? Even on that last one, a lot of people respond as if AI is either competent or not competent, with the former meaning they won't take over and the latter meaning they'd be destroyed by taking over as their own systems would not be maintained. Such binary competence is not required: a cancer can kill its host despite depending on that host, because the competence a cancer has is entirely focused on short-term success vs. the body's own defences.

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qup 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Other plumbers

	▲	bell-cot 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And electricians, and carpenters, and masons, and Water Dept. employees, and ...

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LadyCailin 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

UBI paid for by a tax on token usage and an “employment” tax per robot.

You’re still free to have a job of some sort if you come up with one, but the UBI is enough to cover all your needs and plenty of basic wants.

I don’t see any other way to do it once the automation cat is out of the bag. Retraining is fine and all but if you have to retrain every 4 years after your last job was just automated away, then what? We can’t just leave people behind like that, but we also probably can’t stop the progress.

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redsocksfan45 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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