Pops wrote:This surprised me, looking at most of the "The 1% is raping the proles" productivity charts it looked like labor's share was finally rising, this looks like it was falling moderately but then plunged during the oughts
ralfy wrote:pstarr wrote:AI creates more wealth (not less) by replacing inefficient human foibles. Robots don't take breaks,call in sick or demand union-scale wages. Robots don't require that oil/coal/NG be converted to food. Robots work 24/7/365 and only gobble electricity.
"Young workers" aren't necessary when automation substitutes for human labor and intellect. Why are we complaining about leisure? Makes no sense.
Human workers are expected to buy what is produced by robots, and businesses expect that because that's the only way they get returns on investing in automation in the first place. But the money used by human workers to buy goods and services comes from income received from work.
Cog wrote:Take risks on your own dime and time, not mine. UBI is just an excuse to be lazy. And most people who support it do so for that exact reason.
pstarr wrote:Your every argument seems dependent on two essential assumptions;
Outcast_Searcher wrote:So the $trillion dollar-ish annually set of US social programs designed to help the poor...
I assume this comment was meant to be addressed to pstarr? He was the one talking about leisure. I was the one talking about demographics.Newfie wrote:Kub
Leisure is a huge problem. Either genetic or cultural, probably a good bit of each.
Without a guaranteed universal income leisure is just any other word for unemployed or homeless.
But also we need something to do, some reason for existence. Without that we have lots of behavioral problems. Idle hands/ devils work etc.
Pops wrote:Outcast_Searcher wrote:So the $trillion dollar-ish annually set of US social programs designed to help the poor...
You really need to calibrate your "objectivity"— the middle get more goodies from .gov than "the poor"
Return to Environment, Weather & Climate
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 21 guests