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
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
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
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
See:
http://www.slate.com/id/2304442/
This article references Martin Ford's Lights in the Tunnel which was
discussed here.
- Jed
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
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.
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
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
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From: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
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Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 6:29:44 PM
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Robots will never earn any income.
Are you sure a robot could never
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