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@alex what was he right about?

@realcaseyrollins Simply watch his compelling music video and you’ll understand: https://gleasonator.com/@alex/posts/ATgAFBz8TVV8wibzkG

@alex Haha! Yeah the #UBI isn't a good idea though; it's quite literally why we're in the situation we're in rn financially; #Trump tried it for a year or two to make the consequences of essentially halting a lot of the economy in reaction to #COVID19 go away (it didn't work)

The end result of the #UBI is #Venezuela money, at best.

@realcaseyrollins What also doesn’t work is nobody having a job because machines can do it, resulting in nobody being able to afford to buy the stuff machines produce.

And the REALLY retarded solution is to regulate automation and force people to do stupid work robots could do only for the sake of upholding the status quo. There are people actually advocating for this.

If not UBI, how about a 4-day work week for starters. It makes no sense for humanity to progress and the only people who benefit from it are billionaires.

@alex I think the real solution here is to find jobs that can't be automated

The automation of car manufacturing wasn't the end of the world, for example

@realcaseyrollins Every job can be automated except for the job of automating jobs.

@realcaseyrollins Every job CAN be automated. That’s a philosophical statement. It can possibly exist in this world or universe. The social change it would take to get there, and whether humans are actually capable of it, when, and how, are up for debate.