Your hypothetical either assumes that machines will never be able to be plumbers/doctors/yoga instructors, OR just takes a snapshot of some point in time between now and the eventual future when machines are superior at all work currently done by humans.
The former is incredibly short sighted and the latter doesn't seem super productive to me.
Do you have the robots today? Do you see them happening by the time the next government rolls around and UBI becomes a real choice?
As a reminder, suffering the problems of UBI for just a few years without an actual, functional, non-vaporeware solution in place is going to ruin a lot of lives and quite possibly burn down all our existing shit.
sandoooo|6 years ago
As a reminder, suffering the problems of UBI for just a few years without an actual, functional, non-vaporeware solution in place is going to ruin a lot of lives and quite possibly burn down all our existing shit.
comis|6 years ago
You're arguing timeline when that's not what the article is about. A world without work is our likely future, and it's worth talking about.