I work in industrial automation and I can tell you, no job is safe. It only depend on the investement. Not only the manual,but intellectual labor too! Basic income could be a solution, but it mean more control to government... The Blockchain offer a descentralized option for a basic income, but it have a long way before being accepted from general population. It's a problem we need to take time to talk and find creative solutions.
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No no no. UBI means less control by government, because the U stands for unconditional. Right now the government controls people through strings applied to what it provides. UBI cuts those strings and instead says everyone starts each month with a certain minimum amount of income to use on anything they want.
Look at Alaska as the closest thing to UBI anywhere in the world. It's not high enough to be considered a full UBI, and it's provided once a year instead of once a month, but it's an amount that everyone receives, rich or poor. That is government the government doesn't get to use on what it may otherwise wish to use it on, but instead the people decide how to use it. I've heard it described as predistribution. Money that would otherwise go to government agencies is diverted directly to people.
If UBI is high enough, it would eliminate the need for a great deal of government programs that presently are far too interested in controlling people. UBI removes that control. It shrinks government by replacing existing programs.
Would you say that Social Security means more control of seniors by government? I wouldn't. Seniors have more power over government, not the other way around. They vote. They are active citizens.
Read this next: https://steemit.com/basicincome/@scottsantens/will-universal-basic-income-give-too-much-power-to-whomever-distributes-it
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I'm talking more about a mean of pressure. If the general population isn't happy with this or this decision, just cut back on UBI. What if people want to throw the gouvernement, to critic it or whatever? I see a lot of good in UBI, on papaer, but in the wrong hands... it almost always land in the wrong hands....
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Again look at senior pensions all over the world. According to you, every senior with a govt pension should be fearful of losing that pension and less willing to rock the boat. Do you see that effect in reality anywhere?
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I'm not trying to say UBI is a bad thing, I say it's a great tool but we need use caution. Like when you use a drill, you put on some safety glasses on.
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But, maybe I'm too alarmist? Time will say, because UBI will happen.
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