This also sounds like aspects of the Zeitgeist philosophy.
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This also sounds like aspects of the Zeitgeist philosophy.
Starting to think this is just a scheme to cause inflation. Just a little more fair to the people because they have first use of the money instead of the banks.
If they don't inflate then their currency will become too valuable compared to other major nations which are inflating and they will not be competitive in the global economy.
Coming to America?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxp3Jsw58to
I think it's an interesting proposal. I would fund it by heavily taxing anyone who dared to be productive. Why not? You know they won't starve. It's some people's basic nature to produce, whether it's delicious food, beautiful music, elegant lines of code, etc. Tax it heavily if they sell the fruits of their labor and talent. Take half of any income people make above the stipend. That will probably encourage people to GIVE AWAY the wonderful things they make. The basic stipend will go a lot farther if everyone is feeding and entertaining and making stuff for each other for free.
before lone they will not need to to work for them ...................
Are robots hurting job growth?
Technological advances, especially robotics, are revolutionizing the workplace, but not necessarily creating jobs
- 2013 Sep 08
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The following script is from "March of the Machines" which aired on Jan. 13, 2013, and was rebroadcast on Sept. 8, 2013. Steve Kroft is the correspondent. Harry Radliffe and Maria Gavrilovic, producers.
One of the hallmarks of the 21st century is that we are all having more and more interactions with machines and fewer with human beings. If you've lost your white collar job to downsizing, or to a worker in India or China you're most likely a victim of what economists have called technological unemployment. There is a lot of it going around with more to come.
As we reported earlier this year, at the vanguard of this new wave of automation is the field of robotics. Everyone has a different idea of what a robot is and what they look like but the broad universal definition is a machine that can perform the job of a human. They can be mobile or stationary, hardware or software, and they are marching out of the realm of science fiction and into the mainstream.
The age of robots has been anticipated since the beginning of the last century. Fritz Lang fantasized about it in his 1927 film "Metropolis." In the 1940s and 50s, robots were often portrayed as household help.
And by the time "Star Wars" trilogy arrived, robots with their computerized brains and nerve systems had been fully integrated into our imagination. Now they're finally here, but instead of serving us, we found that they are competing for our jobs. And according to MIT professors, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, one of the reasons for the jobless recovery.
Andrew McAfee: Our economy is bigger than it was before the start of the Great Recession. Corporate profits are back. Business investment in hardware and software is back higher than it's ever been. What's not back is the jobs.
Steve Kroft: And you think technology and increased automation is a factor in that?
Erik Brynjolfsson: Absolutely.
The percentage of Americans with jobs is at a 20-year low. Just a few years ago if you traveled by air you would have interacted with a human ticket agent. Today, those jobs are being replaced by robotic kiosks. Bank tellers have given way to ATMs, sales clerks are surrendering to e-commerce and switchboard operators and secretaries to voice recognition technology.
Erik Brynjolfsson: There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots, they could be physical robots.
Steve Kroft: What is there out there that people would be surprised to learn about? In the robotics area, let's say.
Andrew McAfee: There are heavily automated warehouses where there are either very few or no people around. That absolutely took me by surprise.
It's on display at this huge distribution center in Devens, Mass., where roughly 100 employees work alongside 69 robots that do all the heavy lifting and navigate a warehouse maze the size of two football fields -- moving 10,000 pieces of merchandise a day from storage shelf to shipping point faster and more efficiently than human workers ever could.
Bruce Welty: We think its part of the new American economy.
Bruce Welty is CEO of Quiet Logistics, which fills orders and ships merchandise for retailers in the apparel industry. This entire operation was designed around the small orange robots made by a company outside Boston called Kiva. And can now be found in warehouses all over the country.
Steve Kroft: Now this is the order that she is filling, right, on this screen.
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