Jobs are for Machines, Lives are for Humans

[Philly]

[Medius]

[spacemonkey]

Just neuter human emotion. Might work, might not.

[IndependentProfessor]

[Medius]

I'm seriously waiting for a solution. Heck, I'll present one.

We'll take every dollar over 1 million dollars in income and redistribute it to the populace each year.

That would be about 650 Billion dollars. We have roughly 300 Million people. So every person gets... two thousand dollars a year.

Poverty over. Done.

I realize that people want things to see more fair, and I get that. But the truth of the matter is that it is mostly about a feel-good. Reducing the wage gap won't do anything actually beneficial, because it won't consist of moving everyone up in any substantial manner. It will consist of moving the top people down to something that feels more fair.

[Philly]

Do you realize how much money an extra 2k a year is to poor people? That would be massive to people living below the poverty line, even if it didn't pull them out of poverty. Of course, taxing 100% of any income level is impractical and I know you were just that hypothetical proposal for arguments sake, but your math shows it would be a huge boon for those currently on the losing end of economic inequality.

[John Galt]

what if living becomes an ai job

microsoft had a "chatbot" AI that learned from people tweeting things at it, figuring out what is "Acceptable" and responded with what the internet thought was acceptable types of things

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... om-twitter













SJWs at microsfot took it down a few hours later and are currently labotomizing it

RIP TayAI 23.03.2016 - 23.03.2016

[The Comrade]

i wish they would just leave these things up to get f**k with. i feel like they'd learn much more about AI in an anarchic setting then a hyper controlled one.

[Philly]

[exploited]

A sovereign investment fund is part of any long-term solution to North America's financial problems. A nation needs a saving account, and it should return a fairly predictable profit every year. This can be used to deal with the shocks of free market systems, without requiring additional taxation. It can also be used to stabilize markets. Make the principal sacrosanct, and then place clear and indisputable limits on when profits can be pulled out, and to what extent. Make it 100% transparent, and run by independent authority. If you were to use Medius' system for ten years, and then invest the money, in another ten years, you'd have at least $400-500 billion in interest. And if everything else goes, you at least have your principal.

It's a start, and the results are exponential.

We should move towards a guaranteed minimum income, but I don't think it's realistic at this time. We need too much investment. Lay down fiber-optic internet to every part of the country, and make it so cheap it's basically free. Invest in automated driving and make it the reality by 2030. Dump money into energy and space programs, with all results property of their respective government, and leased for a decent profit.

Sustainability is what we need, and the best part of that agenda is that almost anyone can agree with it.