If the Robots Come for Our Jobs, What Should the Government Do?
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Re: If the Robots Come for Our Jobs, What Should the Government Do?
#2The government should do precisely NOTHING.
The jobs don't belong to workers, so the premise is entirely wrong to begin with.
Re: If the Robots Come for Our Jobs, What Should the Government Do?
#3I've heard universal basic income may be a viable approach, but I think it's unclear how it scales up as of yet.
Regardless, I haven't seen better suggestions yet.
Re: If the Robots Come for Our Jobs, What Should the Government Do?
#4Build a big, beautiful wall.
Re: If the Robots Come for Our Jobs, What Should the Government Do?
#5The government’s job should be to keep an eye that gains are shared broadly enough, and ensure increased productivity doesn’t cause excess environmental harm. (If the government funds Robotics research, all citizens should share in the windfall)
Re: If the Robots Come for Our Jobs, What Should the Government Do?
#6Who owns the robots?
http://calroc.blogspot.com/2012/12/blue-collar-coders.html
> In your lifetime the current economic paradigm will become as quaint and bizarre as a Renaissance Faire.
> The handwriting is on the wall, plain to see for all. With the rapid sweep and accelerating scope of technological development, most people will be left behind. Just sitting there you are becoming relatively more ignorant as a sort of inflation of the mind occurs all around you. There is no way you can keep up with it all, so how is a normal person going to do it?
> These are the options for normal people:
1 Exterminate them.
2 Enslave them.
3 Pay them to stay home and play video games.
4 Trick them into make-work and drudgery.
5 Something else...Re: If the Robots Come for Our Jobs, What Should the Government Do?
#7The article talks about how globalization caused automation to replace millions of factory workers. Factory jobs, aren't the greatest, especially before the 1970s, and in many parts of the world, are still awful. Similarly, If we could replace every mining job with robots we'd remove a lot of human abuse in many parts of the world.
Re: If the Robots Come for Our Jobs, What Should the Government Do?
#8Robots don't come for government jobs?
Re: If the Robots Come for Our Jobs, What Should the Government Do?
#9The government should do precisely NOTHING. The jobs don't belong to workers, so the premise is entirely wrong to begin with.
This is correct. It's not the government's job to provide you a job, it's a personal responsibility to find one, if you want one. If you seek one, the government might provide some minor worker abuse and discrimination protections, but this in no way implies you have entitlement to a job or even income.
Re: If the Robots Come for Our Jobs, What Should the Government Do?
#10The article talks about how globalization caused automation to replace millions of factory workers. Factory jobs, aren't the greatest, especially before the 1970s, and in many parts of the world, are still awful. Similarly, If we could replace every mining job with robots we'd remove a lot of human abuse in many parts of the world.
You’d also remove the way for lots of people to make a living.
The unemployed only know that making a living in a lousy industry is better than not making any living at all.