Once AI doesn’t pan out as the savior of the planet, they’ll pivot to go all in on robotics, and lots of people are going to lose jobs. When there’s a permanent unemployment rate of 30% or more, society will be faced with 2 choices - UBI, or a reduction in the population.
Which solution do you think each party will embrace?
Reduction in population won’t work - it’d cause a reduction in demand of products leading to reduction in need of work force. It would just spiral to a population of 0
I doubt they’d be smart enough to think about that, once it got into their heads that they have the opportunity to murder millions of people, which is Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller’s greatest fantasy.
Besides, even if they could be forced to consider that, they’d just rationalize it away by saying that as the bottom rungs of the ladder, they aren’t consuming much anyway, and/or what good is their consumption if they just get all their money from the government to do it? The government might as well just give the money directly to the corporations, and bypass the middle man, leaving us free, and justified, to kill all those unemployed parasites.
I honestly don’t think either party is going to pick reduction in population beyond simply cancelling all immigration. And while that would lead to a reduction in the population over time, it’s far too slow to handle the unemployment spiking like that.
Once AI doesn’t pan out as the savior of the planet, they’ll pivot to go all in on robotics, and lots of people are going to lose jobs. When there’s a permanent unemployment rate of 30% or more, society will be faced with 2 choices - UBI, or a reduction in the population.
Which solution do you think each party will embrace?
Reduction in population won’t work - it’d cause a reduction in demand of products leading to reduction in need of work force. It would just spiral to a population of 0
I doubt they’d be smart enough to think about that, once it got into their heads that they have the opportunity to murder millions of people, which is Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller’s greatest fantasy.
Besides, even if they could be forced to consider that, they’d just rationalize it away by saying that as the bottom rungs of the ladder, they aren’t consuming much anyway, and/or what good is their consumption if they just get all their money from the government to do it? The government might as well just give the money directly to the corporations, and bypass the middle man, leaving us free, and justified, to kill all those unemployed parasites.
I honestly don’t think either party is going to pick reduction in population beyond simply cancelling all immigration. And while that would lead to a reduction in the population over time, it’s far too slow to handle the unemployment spiking like that.
Unless they decide to accelerate the process.