[JCricket]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I don't care what anybody says, due to dramatic increases in worker productivity we have a surplus of labor.

Uh Yeah. I guess that we have fewer jobs and international outsourcing has nothing to do with fewer jobs. I would bet worker productivity is as high as ever.

Robotics is going to make this surplus even more acute.

You have no clue about what you speak. I worked robotics for a few companies. It is generally very expensive and very job specific. Most of the time robotics doesn't not justify the cost. I am talking true robotics, not automation.

It's a wet dream for employers because they can dictate the terms of employment they want and the poor desperate for a job masses have to eat whatever shit sandwich they are offered.

Agreed, unfortunately

The way I see it we have two options.

One is to create a shitload of non-jobs with the government.

The other is to pay people not to work, like we pay farmers not to grow shit in order to avoid surpluses.

I favor paying people not to work.

That's what I see the guaranteed income to be.

see red above