Switzerland is far from doing that. There will be a discussion in
parliament about that issue some distant day. All the fuzz was about
actually "forcing" them to discus the issue by collecting enough signatures.
See
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-switzerlands-basic-income-initiative-works-2013-11
It's not likely that it will pass though ... a few month ago
Switzerland's population voted against limiting the income of people to
12 times the lowest income within the same company. We are not yet
spiritually ready for a cooperative world ...
See http://www.bbc.com/news/business-25076879
As far as I know there is only Alaska paying their citizens some
unconditional income and some small town in Africa.
Technological unemployment already is a huge problem all over the world
and that's why we need to overcome our monetary system, capitalism and
other fear and competition based socioeconomic frameworks ... but we
already had that discussion many times ...
Also no true AGI will ever generate any revenue for anybody. True AGI
will obsolete the notion of personal profit and all monetary incentives.
On 03/18/2014 03:15 AM, Piaget Modeler wrote:
> Why won’t we let them do any work so that human beings
> never ever have to work again? Isn’t that wonderful? :-)
>
> - NA
Only wonderful if we live in Switzerland where the government
guarantees 2,500 francs per person. In other countries where
automation is replacing jobs, and there is no such income guarantee
people will just exhaust their unemployment insurance then go
hungry. Not so wonderful.
~PM
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