Re: [Vo]:Will Robots Steal Your Job?

2011-09-27 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:03 AM, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: What would they consume Videos? Hard Metal Pornography? food? Health insurance? Nickel and hydrogen. ;-) T

Re: [Vo]:Will Robots Steal Your Job?

2011-09-27 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/9/27 OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net: Harry sez: Robots will never earn any income. Are you sure a robot could never be designed and programmed to earn an income? Not if we eventually create sentience as sophisticated as someone like Data, from Star Trek

Re: [Vo]:Will Robots Steal Your Job?

2011-09-27 Thread Craig Haynie
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 04:50 +0300, Jouni Valkonen wrote: In pure and ideal basic income economy, all tax revenues are returned to the markets boosting purchasing power of consumers, therefore economic burden of taxes is zero and no one has no economic reasons to oppose taxes. —Jouni

Re: [Vo]:Will Robots Steal Your Job?

2011-09-27 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/9/27 Craig Haynie cchayniepub...@gmail.com: You don't have a consistent moral theory. Therefore you throw morality out of the window - in the name of morality - so that you can build 'your' perfect society. But it's not perfect, because if it were, then there would be no reason to

[Vo]:Will Robots Steal Your Job?

2011-09-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
See: http://www.slate.com/id/2304442/ This article references Martin Ford's Lights in the Tunnel which was discussed here. - Jed

Re: [Vo]:Will Robots Steal Your Job?

2011-09-26 Thread Jouni Valkonen
2011/9/26 Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com: This article references Martin Ford's Lights in the Tunnel which was discussed here. I have not yet read the article, but one short comment about the topic. That robots are stealing our jobs is not an issue, because we can tax robots and give

Re: [Vo]:Will Robots Steal Your Job?

2011-09-26 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Jouni sez: This article references Martin Ford's Lights in the Tunnel which was discussed here. I have not yet read the article, but one short comment about the topic. That robots are stealing our jobs is not an issue, because we can tax robots and give money to the poor as a basic income.

Re: [Vo]:Will Robots Steal Your Job?

2011-09-26 Thread Mark Goldes
Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Will Robots Steal Your Job? Jouni sez: This article references Martin Ford's Lights in the Tunnel which was discussed here. I have not yet read the article, but one short comment

Re: [Vo]:Will Robots Steal Your Job?

2011-09-26 Thread Jouni Valkonen
Steven, you are refering to value add tax with that employment tax. There is no resistance for value add tax in europe and it is commonly ca. 20%. Many people however argue that the proportion should be increased because it is unethical to tax incomes. Some even think that all tax revenues should

Re: [Vo]:Will Robots Steal Your Job?

2011-09-26 Thread Harry Veeder
- Original Message - From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Cc: Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 6:29:44 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Will Robots Steal Your Job? Robots will never earn any income. Are you sure a robot could never