05-08-2023, 10:23 PM
(04-26-2023, 02:07 PM)grampahol Wrote: Ehh..the automobile was going to wipe out everyone who had a horse. The industrial revolution was going to wipe out manual labor. There are tons of jobs that no longer exist since I started working.. Truth is people either change with the times or they get left behind. We've been reinventing ourselves as a species since we decided to quit chasing down our food on foot..We have the occasional cataclysmic event to wipe out a huge swath of people, but never quite enough to stop human progress. For the times they are a changing..
Yeah, it's all fun and games til the gubmint realizes how much money they'll lose when a chunk of their tax base disappears. There won't be UBI if there's no entity to collect and distribute from a pool of credit.
Unless, of course the AI figures out how to drain the money from the billionaire class and redistribute it among the masses. If it's actually logical and sentient, I imagine that concept is a possibility.
