The money still keeps them being consumers. Of course their a genuine people who due to health conditions cannot work. However, I have also found those with health conditions way more serious than many claiming sickness benefits and not working . Actually do work and can work a full time contract. They get the benefit for what it is suppose to be use for... Keeping their independence,
Unfortunately in the UK it already exists. Since COVID . No benefits really get checked if they are required. People worked out that they could claim benefits and sickness benefits . Even for their children. Then, because their children had a sickness benefit .They could have a sickness benefit and a carers benefit. Then they can have their housing paid for them. They have no intention of returning to verification visits or face to face assessments. Many even on the face to face can do the most terrible acting and get signed for another year on a sickness benefit. We are talking large sums of money. Those who only get a little benefit .The young might not even want to work and their working parents support them. Alternatively, they work cash in hand and the benefit can be again another gate way for housing to be paid for them.
Good points to make about the function and role of AI and robotics. Sadly, our society is so dominated by the plutocracy that we the people are not in any condition or place to even discuss the topic, much less, exercise some control over what is coming down the pike. Continue your relentless push to educate and inform on the matter advancing egalitarian possibilities. Better you write and challenge our thinking than retire to your couch and stew like a potato in a pot. Long time ago I came upon Murray Bookchin's collection of essays in which he considers a "post-scarcity" world, and provided some early thought on how to think about the future of technology; nice that you can continue to carry water on this important topic; and yes, your criticism of the UBI is on point. Here is a reference to Bookchin: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book
The money still keeps them being consumers. Of course their a genuine people who due to health conditions cannot work. However, I have also found those with health conditions way more serious than many claiming sickness benefits and not working . Actually do work and can work a full time contract. They get the benefit for what it is suppose to be use for... Keeping their independence,
Unfortunately in the UK it already exists. Since COVID . No benefits really get checked if they are required. People worked out that they could claim benefits and sickness benefits . Even for their children. Then, because their children had a sickness benefit .They could have a sickness benefit and a carers benefit. Then they can have their housing paid for them. They have no intention of returning to verification visits or face to face assessments. Many even on the face to face can do the most terrible acting and get signed for another year on a sickness benefit. We are talking large sums of money. Those who only get a little benefit .The young might not even want to work and their working parents support them. Alternatively, they work cash in hand and the benefit can be again another gate way for housing to be paid for them.
Good points to make about the function and role of AI and robotics. Sadly, our society is so dominated by the plutocracy that we the people are not in any condition or place to even discuss the topic, much less, exercise some control over what is coming down the pike. Continue your relentless push to educate and inform on the matter advancing egalitarian possibilities. Better you write and challenge our thinking than retire to your couch and stew like a potato in a pot. Long time ago I came upon Murray Bookchin's collection of essays in which he considers a "post-scarcity" world, and provided some early thought on how to think about the future of technology; nice that you can continue to carry water on this important topic; and yes, your criticism of the UBI is on point. Here is a reference to Bookchin: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post-scarcity-anarchism-book
Thank you. And thank you again for the Murray Bookchin link.