RE: Universal basic income in the future
August 19, 2019 at 12:43 pm
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2019 at 12:44 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(August 19, 2019 at 11:24 am)onlinebiker Wrote:(August 19, 2019 at 10:19 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Well sure one day everything will be free because we will have replicators like in Star Trek and robot servants.
Yeah... You think we're going to do all the work why you sit on your ass barking orders?
Good luck with that.
Signed
Skynet
That's how it is with human progress: work less with your body and more with mind. I mean our ancestors from thousands of years ago were walking all day long looking for food and now you're laying on bed and typing on your mobile phone for large chunk of the day - something that they didn't have time for. And yet you don't feel like you're working nothing, although they would see you as lazy and fat.
And even now, every human in modern world has hundreds of slaves working for him/ her in regards of energy. Try making physically at least 100W or even 50W and you'll quickly discover that it's extremely tiring and yet everyone uses much more than 100W on a daily basis, so translate that to human power and you'll quickly calculate that you have hundreds of "people" working for your status quo for only fraction of price.
And when it comes to future it's going to take much more power, much more artificial intelligence to clean this world from all sorts of garbage and pollution just so we can survive. It is almost like people have a choice between two movies of how their future will be: "Star Trek" and "Soylent Green".
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
