Posted on 02/15/2017 5:50:03 AM PST by Olog-hai
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has doubled down on his support of a universal basic income as a possible solution for unemployment caused by the rise of machines equipped with artificial intelligence taking over the workforce.
A universal basic income would give a standard amount of money to every citizen to cover basic expenses like food and living costs each month.
At the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday, Musk told a crowd that universal basic income is “going to be necessary” in the future.
Musk first joined the growing list of tech executives supporting the payment system in November when he spoke about the concept in an interview with CNBC.
Former President Barack Obama warned Congress in March that by 2030, as many as 50 percent of jobs could be replaced by robots, leaving millions of people without work. …
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We can always drive one of his exploding cars into oblivion, yes? Never mind this old refrain of the left about robots.
Fine. Let’s start with redistributing all of his money.
I suggest we start with Elon Musk and put him on a “basic income.”
This guy has milked the taxpayers enough.
If no one is working, no one is producing, and no one deserves to be paid, and no one can buy anything.
It will never get to 100% of jobs done by robots, because of the previous sentence.
This man is unbalanced, but the danger is that many will take him seriously.
If half our jobs will be threatened by robots, why are we allowing ANY large number of immigrants at all?
What happens when the uber intelligent computer networks and robots conclude that it’s a waste of effort to keep useless humans alive on life support?
See six. What makes us think that super intelligent robots/computer networks will keep feeding us indefinitely?
If there is going to be a welfare state, may as well be GBI.
One of those “if you’re going to do it wrong, do it well” things.
Should be a warning to stop doing it wrong.
“The communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.” …You know the left never questions their own dogma no matter how much it lacks sense.
I am all for raising the taxes of anyone registered as a Democrat!
Give this morons what they want! THEY want to pay more taxes, make them pay more taxes! and leave the rest of us alone!
We keep on hearing that countries like Germany are importing 3rd worlders because of a lack of workers. Can’t Germany use robots?
I need one of them there robots that cleans house, does dishes, plants and harvests a garden, He She It whatever needs to make good coffee also.
We managed to make it through the Industrial Revolution and the Information Revolution, I think we will make it through the Robotics Revolution.
D@mn Luddites...
Sadly many jobs will disappear, hopefully new ones will replace them if not we will likely we may end up paying people to sit on their ass all day getting high and making babies..., Kind of like today but worse.
So when is Tesla going to start cutting the checks?
Have you been watching “Humans”? I’ve got a feeling it doesn’t end well. (No spoilers, please. We are still on Season 1.)
GBI is the gateway unavoidably to absolute totalitarianism.
One need only look at the aggregate behavior of the recipients of secular ‘welfare’ benefits. Unless Karl Marx is right and human nature will change, widespread GBI will destroy civilization itself without totalitarian guidance for each individual.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Keep atheists from power, because they are unwise, unrestrained, and prone to murder.
Marx has never been right about anything. Only someone like him could come up with the absurd notion (without explanation) that an all-powerful centralized state would “wither away” into his mythical communistic society. And as “The Naked Communist” points out, Marx’s ideal human race would be “conditioned to think like criminals” without a shred of morality.
Elon Musk sucks off the government teat. He is clinically insane
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