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		knodi123 on July 27, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The code I’m still ashamed of (2016) > We're better off with something like UBI Okay - but are we replacing them with UBI? It feels analogous to ripping a person off of life support while saying "some day, you'll get an organ transplant. I prefer that to keeping you alive mechanically, strapped to a bed."

rbecker on July 27, 2020 [–]

Automation makes UBI more politically and economically feasible. I.e. no-one could reasonably call for UBI when 95% of the population were farmers.

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