• Jakdracula@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Telephones made the telegraph employees obsolete. Cars made the horses obsolete. Progress moves on.

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      6 months ago

      While this is true to an extent, the human mind is not evolving at the pace of technology. Eventually (not sure when) humans will become unemployable for the majority of jobs and the few that are left will not be enough to go around.

      We need to start taking UBI ideas seriously now, so in a few decades they are palatable, because we are heading for a labour collapse.