The U. Bath document references a seminal paper in this field by a libertarian:
IN OUR HANDS A Plan to Replace the Welfare State Charles Murray THE AEI PRESS Publisher for the American Enterprise Institute WASHINGTON, D.C. http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/-in-our-hands_105549266790.pdf This again demonstrates that it makes no sense to call this a socialist or communist idea. From the point of view of right-wing supporters and libertarians it is opposite. I think that applying 19th century ideological categories to 21st century ideas does not work. This is neither communist nor capitalist. As I said, those systems are about allocating human labor, and directing human activities. The basic income is about robot labor. Robots don't have feelings. They do not resent being exploited by us, or working 24 hours a day without being paid. Essentially, what is emerging is a society based on slave labor. Hundreds of times more slave labor than any previous society could of dreamed of. All of us will be able to live without working, the way slave owners have always done when they chose to. Needless to say, unlike any previous system of slavery, this one will not be depraved. It will not be wicked, or inhuman. This is something new, made possible by new technology. It is possible to begin this now. Later it will become imperative if we are going to have a functioning economy in which people can eat. If cold fusion can be made to work, it will accelerate this trend more than any other technology except robotics. - Jed
