If you have the option, do you use the cashier or the self checkout line at the grocery store? What about other types if store like hardware stores?
If you have the option, do you use the cashier or the self checkout line at the grocery store? What about other types if store like hardware stores?
You’re looking at it wrong: it’s not taking away jobs, it’s saving on work that needs to be done.
The goal should be 0 jobs. Nobody should have to work. The fewer things that need to be done by humans the more time we all have to spend on things that actually matter.
You are confusing the need for an income with having a job. People need an income to live, they don’t have a need to be scanning groceries at Lidl all day.
And that’s exactly why I’ll start using self-checkout the day UBI is implemented (and not a day sooner).
Chicken/egg problem. As long as they can convince people to be wage slaves there won’t be a need for UBI.
Fair. But I’m not sure widespread poverty will do the trick this time. The wealth extraction by the richest is historically unprecedented, but the poorest blame the immigrants instead of revolting. Manipulation of public opinion has become easier than ever before, the same as surveillance. I don’t see the people rising up anytime soon and my neighborhood cashier has to eat this month.