Hi! That's a fair question. Well, I don't have any easy solutions. I'm still at the stage of identifying and trying to see the scope of the problem. I do see this though: If we want to keep life resembling kind of what we know right now, a basic income would go a ways in the right direction, including the drawbacks of dependency that you mention of course. Some folks will undoubtedly abuse such a system and do as little as possible. On the other hand it could free up people to do what they really like doing, are really good at or passionate about. Of course adopting basic income will come with problems, especially if left to government. Unlike many, I don't see a big difference in freedom because what they can do with controlling your income in such a system, they are doing now with laws, guns, and taxes. I do know what the alternative looks like if we do nothing and welcome any discussion with anyone willing to look at all the possibilities rather than being stuck in a system that will no longer support the general well being of society. Another idea is taxing computing power or automation rather than labor. Crazy? Well, I think that's where we're headed and if machines are generating income and people are not, what are the alternatives?
Hi! That's a fair question. Well, I don't have any easy solutions. I'm still at the stage of identifying and trying to see the scope of the problem. I do see this though: If we want to keep life resembling kind of what we know right now, a basic income would go a ways in the right direction, including the drawbacks of dependency that you mention of course. Some folks will undoubtedly abuse such a system and do as little as possible. On the other hand it could free up people to do what they really like doing, are really good at or passionate about. Of course adopting basic income will come with problems, especially if left to government. Unlike many, I don't see a big difference in freedom because what they can do with controlling your income in such a system, they are doing now with laws, guns, and taxes. I do know what the alternative looks like if we do nothing and welcome any discussion with anyone willing to look at all the possibilities rather than being stuck in a system that will no longer support the general well being of society. Another idea is taxing computing power or automation rather than labor. Crazy? Well, I think that's where we're headed and if machines are generating income and people are not, what are the alternatives?