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Reviews for "Why Basic Income?"

Just to let people know, Basic Income is just a safety net, is a reassurance for people to know that they wont go on hungry, sick and un-sheltered, is the same as universal healthcare and free tuition, they exist to assure you a minimum quality of life, but the safety nets still need to be taken care of, they need maintenance, for they don't come free, they have to be sustained by an active work force, that keeps on innovating and moving forward to a better work, just because you get a basic income, doesn't means that you can now detach yourself from society and leave it all in the hands of drones to manage.

For once the moment machines become able to self regulate and improve they will stop being machine and pass to be something else, an artificial organism or an advanced AI, which doesn't really has any duty to maintain us, secondly if management is still done by humans, the those humans have to be regulated by society in order to keep a check on power misuse, and a big part of that process comes from being an active member of society, being that as an artist, scientist, engineer, social worker, chef, nurse, teacher, etc.

Total automation and complete BI may make the concept of work as a form to acquire sustenance obsolete, but work will still serve as a form of regulating the system.

Well made video. Gorgeous.

To all those saying this message can't work:

What about 20 years from now (or maybe as few as 1-5 years for some occupations) where your job is done by a robot. What now?

Robotics will be able to do almost everything and maybe actually everything.

The only viable long term economic solution I see is a guaranteed basic income and a moderate tax on robot and automation labor.

Another great video about this subject is by CGP Grey, "Humans need not apply"

I can't speak for anyone else, but if I had the option of playing video games all day, I probably would.

adamanimates responds:

I might for a while too, but then I would get bored and make more animations.

Achronai, my question is what will happen when robots take everyone's job and no one can sell their labor in a way that makes economic sense? Your statement is the classic U.S. Republican response to changing a system that only allows the few to benefit at the cost of the many. As a guy with a degree in Economics, "adamanimates" is right.

The studies where basic income has been tried, it has been shown to work. It will not solve all the world's problems but it is a start. The only reason basic income has not been attempted on a large scale is because it would take power away from the few and give it to the them which is the opposite of the capitalism system.

Drain the swamp by adding in some billionaires...

yes yes. good luck.