RE: FREE CRYPTO AS A HUMAN RIGHT
Interesting project I will be sure to check it out. While I’m not happy with universal basic income being the solution the fact of matter is I’ve not heard much better. Every day more and more stores, malls, and places of work are lying off or reducing their workforce in favor of automation.
A few people I know are currently in the process of training their automotive replacement or their customers on how to use their replacement when they are gone. Thankfully some of their industry they work in some people realize what is going on and refuse to use a device and request a person every time.
I know anytime I go out to restaurant or other places and they try and get me to “use” a tablet to order food or self-checkout I request a human. Society is not in a place yet to have a developed answer for all these displaced workers.
I agree with everything you said, @enjar. The rate of automatisation of jobs is alarming. It would be okay by me, if it led to increases in free time for the human workers, while retaining their levels of income. But in reality, as you pointed out, it leads to lay-offs and loss of income. It benefits the rich few, while hurting the struggling working poor. UBI can be a counter-balancing (or at least somewhat mitigating) force during this transition to a more automated jobs economy. I believe that in the long term the decision makers will have to choose between facing mass unrest (revolution?) and implementing UBI.
I'm seeing it more and more in the US. Good honest hard working people can't even make it anymore. Instead of them only having to work 15-25 hours a week like automation should be creating. They are putting 60 and are making less then they where years ago.
Exactly. Ideally automation should have made the working class people more free and prosperous, by allowing us to work less and/or under less strenuous conditions, while enjoying more free time and wages in line with at least a decent living standard (and ideally quite comfortable lifestyles that working families enjoyed for decades after the World War II). Instead, in reality we are seeing people being pushed towards the margins of the labour market, or out of jobs entirely. People are forced to take less well-paid jobs, more precarious or outright dangerous assignments, working longer hours for worse salary. Those who own and control technological capital have found ways to exploit both the machines and the people. :-/ Hopefully it’s not too late to find ways to direct this technological development towards the benefit of a much larger number of people.
I have failed quite a number of years trying find alterative ways to get around such control these people wield. I hope one of these days to find something so I no longer have dependence on the couple of crumbs they "feel" we have earned.