Quote:
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.
Robotics is going to make this surplus even more acute.
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.
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.
|
Curious: what do you think will happen to the labor surplus and high productivity when we start paying people not to work?
Also, assuming this....um...interesting economic theory is put into place, and somehow supply meets demand in the labor market, how do you convince all those folks who are being paid not to work that they actually need to go back to work?