That is along the lines of what a group/movement in europe is working on
... except that they do not suggest a base income but an unconditional
supply of all goods that are already being produced in abundance. You
would get extra money/bonuses for working on making more things abundant
or doing not so pleasant jobs.
I am glad that at least some people in the AGI/H+/Singularity community
are thinking about the implementation of cooperative frameworks. This
will be extremely important as technologies become more potent and thus
existential risks increase. I also made a living trading stocks and
futures beside doing the usual software engineering thingy but I deeply
believe that this age of separation, competition and personal profits
needs to come to an end very soon. We are already forcing a hand full of
countries like Greece and Portugal into medieval conditions for
absolutely no reason other than some abstract model that no longer holds
valid and I don't think that this constitutes a good foundation for a
positive singularity or that this is the best we can do as a species.
On 01/08/2013 09:51 PM, Aaron Hosford wrote:
All this talk about a cooperative socioeconomic framework, and yet I
get no reaction when I suggest universal cooperatives as a solution.
If we were to embrace the cooperative business model, but take it to
it's logical conclusion (where everyone owns a share), the profits
would be split equally among us all, giving each and every person an
equal base income, and therefore an equal share in the excess
production of the economy, without significantly modifying the core
economic concepts we are already all familiar with (money,
corporations, jobs, etc.). Employees would get an income on top of
this base amount, in order to motivate them to do the additional work
that others aren't doing, but each time a job is eliminated due to
automation or other efficiency gains, the wages that are eliminated go
into everyone's pockets instead of the select few.
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