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Sherman A1

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2. This is why I support Andrew Yang in this campaign for 2020

Reply to happyaccident (Original post)

Thu Jun 27, 2019, 05:53 AM

Jun 2019

As he has looked at the coming of AI in his book and has policies to address the changes that we are currently and about to encounter.

From his campaign website

https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-ubi/

In the next 12 years, 1 out of 3 American workers are at risk of losing their jobs to new technologies—and unlike with previous waves of automation, this time new jobs will not appear quickly enough in large enough numbers to make up for it. To avoid an unprecedented crisis, we’re going to have to find a new solution, unlike anything we’ve done before. It all begins with Universal Basic Income for all American adults, no strings attached – a foundation on which a stable, prosperous, and just society can be built.

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Is the end result of our capitalist system slavery or obsolescence?as in robots replacing us? [View all] happyaccident Jun 2019 OP

"In the long run we are all dead. " keynes rampartc Jun 2019 #1

"Crony capitalism" watoos Jun 2019 #3

gangster capitalism, monopolistic capitalism rampartc Jun 2019 #9

This is why I support Andrew Yang in this campaign for 2020 Sherman A1 Jun 2019 #2

Its going to get worse, with capitalism there is no "just society" happyaccident Jun 2019 #4

What makes it worse watoos Jun 2019 #7

All capitalism is crony capitalism because it isn't an economic system happyaccident Jun 2019 #18

+1 leftstreet Jun 2019 #29

Yet a mix of democracy and capitalism is working in Scandinavia, appalachiablue Jun 2019 #30

What impact would Universal Basic Income have on the economy? Sherman A1 Jun 2019 #10

I would worry about losing it happyaccident Jun 2019 #15

Capitalism certainly results in monopolies. watoos Jun 2019 #5

Workers are being replaced by technology Sherman A1 Jun 2019 #11

Well, it won't go on for too many more decades misanthrope Jun 2019 #19

I think technologogical innovation will be the last thing to go happyaccident Jun 2019 #22

You need infrastructure and stable weather misanthrope Jun 2019 #24

Perhaps Sherman A1 Jun 2019 #31

Perhaps we will misanthrope Jun 2019 #32

Technology has always displaced workers. trev Jun 2019 #14

The difference now is robots and AI are taking the jobs happyaccident Jun 2019 #16

+1 2naSalit Jun 2019 #27

The consumer doesn't realize how much power they have Buckeyeblue Jun 2019 #6

Consumers eat their own, watoos Jun 2019 #8

You're right Buckeyeblue Jun 2019 #13

Thomas Jefferson warned that if we had a government run by the rich sop Jun 2019 #12

Fuck Thomas Jefferson, he absolutely believed in government by the rich. happyaccident Jun 2019 #17

Would we still be hiring telephone operators in a Socialist paradise? brooklynite Jun 2019 #20

It's not a paradise, it's harder work than what we have now, requires more responsibility to society happyaccident Jun 2019 #23

Neither, it's wage slavery. Initech Jun 2019 #21

We never got rid of slavery. SlogginThroughIt Jun 2019 #25

+1 2naSalit Jun 2019 #28

Now as in the past. One solution. democratisphere Jun 2019 #26