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Devanismyname t1_iqsfa97 wrote

Reply to comment by LeifInVinland in How John Deere plans to build a world of fully autonomous farming by 2030 by Shelfrock77

Not UBI, wage subsidy. So if a company hires 10 people right now for one job, in 10 years they cut the hours in half and hire twice as many people. The people get paid the same amount, because the government subsidizes their wages. The company loses nothing, people can still work, and it serves a similar purpose to UBI but without the mass depression from being locked in your apartment all day. Part time work isn't soul crushing and you still have something to get out of bed for everyday. If you can live a comfortable life working 20 hours a week rather than 40, and you can do it at something that isn't fast food, I think that's a healthy life.

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Analog_AI t1_iqt0una wrote

The companies replace human labor with machines to save money and cut costs, not to spread the wage fund over more employees. They are not philanthropists but competition forced capitalists.

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Devanismyname t1_iqt4qt3 wrote

Not all jobs will be automated right away. Servers, construction, policing, etc. Lower the hours in places where people are still needed.

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Analog_AI t1_iqt53o7 wrote

You are correct: not all jobs will be automated right away, indeed. No one said they will be. They will be automated only when the automation of a job can be done cheaper and with less errors than the same job performed by a human worker. It was always so.

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