Robots
I read that 30-50% of all jobs will be replaced by machines in the next 20 years.
Shows us the need for "Quality" education.
It'll be interesting to watch the U.S. transition to a basic guaranteed income. Right now I put the odds at 1/7 in my lifetime.
You already have one, so do we, just nobody has noticed.
Quote from: nffc on February 23, 2016, 04:24:11 PM
You already have one, so do we, just nobody has noticed.
Okay, I'll bite. How's that?
The White House, in a stunning report to Congress this week, put the probability at 83 percent that a worker making less than $20 an hour in 2010 will eventually lose his job to a machine. Even workers making as much as $40 an hour face odds of 31 percent.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/02/24/robots-will-take-your-job/5lXtKomQ7uQBEzTJOXT7YO/story.html
Interesting article!
In MY WAY of thinking, anyone who measures income in "hourly" terms is doomed.
You're right, NFFC. Should have said "extended social security."
We will have to look after each other, as the only way to work.
Carers, nurses, doctors etc.
wo/man needs a purpose.
It's OK, even if jobs are lost then UBI is here to save the day
"In New York, the influential venture capitalist Albert Wenger has been sounding off about a basic income for at least three years, claiming it offers an answer to a very modern question. If, as he says, "we are at the beginning of the time where machines will do a lot of the things humans have traditionally done", how do you avoid "a massive bifurcation of society into those who have wealth and those who don't"?"
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/13/should-we-scrap-benefits-and-pay-everyone-100-a-week-whether-they-work-or-not
Prepare you children & grandchildren NOW