<div dir="ltr">I thought it was the Russians. Now it's the robots? If all these robots are coming, perhaps we SHOULD take a look at continued imports of low wage, uneducated, illegal workers into the US...<div><br></div><div>Also, who's pocket is that universal income going to come out of? I would assume those of us who are still forced to work because robots haven't taken our jobs yet. Considering ALL taxation is a form of armed, forcible expropriation, I'm not in favor of looking for ways to increase it.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 1:01 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:30 AM, Rafal Smigrodzki </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><div style="display:inline"></div><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></blockquote></span><div>
<p class="m_-7318003481578107911m_8382526399896215896gmail-p1">"<i>one more robot per thousand workers reduces the employment to population ratio by about 0.18-0.34 percentage points and wages by 0.25-0.5 percent</i>. " </p>
<p class="m_-7318003481578107911m_8382526399896215896gmail-p1">Unhappy desperate people tend to do stupid things, like vote for Donald Trump. The number of robots is certain to increase in the coming years, so are future presidents likely to be even crazier than Donald Trump? I think the answer is yes unless measures are taken to help people get through the jarring destabilization cause by the transition to a robot economy. One of the first declared candidates for the 2020 presidential election is Silicon Valley executive Andrew Yang , and his primary issue is surviving the robot apocalypse </p></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/technology/his-2020-campaign-message-the-robots-are-coming.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbusiness" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0<wbr>2/10/technology/his-2020-campa<wbr>ign-message-the-robots-are-<wbr>coming.html?rref=collection%2F<wbr>sectioncollection%2Fbusiness</a></div></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<p class="m_-7318003481578107911m_8382526399896215896gmail-p1">Yang thinks the USA needs to </p><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">take</div> radical steps or Great Depression-level unemployment and a total societal collapse is certain. <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">He says:</div><p></p>
<p class="m_-7318003481578107911m_8382526399896215896gmail-p1"> "<i>All you need is self-driving cars to destabilize society, in just a few years we’re going to have a million truck drivers out of work who are 94 percent male, with an average level of education of high school or one year of college. That one innovation, will be enough to create riots in the street. And we’re about to do the same thing to retail workers, call center workers, fast-food workers, insurance companies, accounting firms.</i>”</p>
<p class="m_-7318003481578107911m_8382526399896215896gmail-p1">Yang thinks there should be monthly payments of $1,000 for every American from age 18 to 64. I know a idea like that rubs the libertarians among us the wrong way and until very recently I would have laughed at such a thing too, but AI is advancing faster than I expected so my views can't remain fixed. Yang says:</p>
<p class="m_-7318003481578107911m_8382526399896215896gmail-p1">“<i>I’m a capitalist, and I believe that universal basic income is necessary for capitalism to continue</i>.”</p>
<p class="m_-7318003481578107911m_8382526399896215896gmail-p1"> </p><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>John K Clark <p></p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><div><div><br></div></div></div>
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