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Well in a world with no human jobs, Universal Basic Income boils down to the fact the wealth of those who own robots will be redistributed to those who don't have them. So why not make it so that everyone has some share of robots?


Someone else will always have better robots than you, your unemployed robots will sit in your garage.


>Well in a world with no human jobs, Universal Basic Income boils down to the fact the wealth of those who own robots will be redistributed to those who don't have them

It would be interesting to see this proposal work out. Capital is movable whereas people are mostly not. How would you prevent the robots moving (or built and run) where there are no taxes on them? I don't see how this be preventable without all nations agreeing on it. It doesn't work even with tax havens within the EU so why should this work world wide?


Communist!


Yes, maybe Marx was right all along, just 150 years too early.


His critique of capitalism seems pretty spot on, but I'm not so sure about his solutions to the problem.

Here's a (mercifully short) article on the subject by Chris Hedges: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/karl_marx_was_right_2015...




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