Ok, let's explore options... 1: Hand out free money, the devil is in the details it seems, but done right this is promising.
2: Get paid for work a robot does, in the end this is similar as getting money for free, except it requires too much initiative, outlay and luck. You need your robot to be in demand, in good repair, have the outlay to buy one... Though ok as a backup to earn extra, but maybe not the best option as a backup. BTW vending machines are robots you can get paid for. 3: Free stuff, have the staples of life given freely, though not unlimitedly. People who don't work would essentially live a moneyless life. This idea has plenty of downsides that I can see, but an upside would be that the motivation of wanting extra stuff that only money could buy could be a drive to earn money by being productive somehow. On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I wrote: > > >> That would be a fascist solution to a problem that easily be solved by >> capitalistic methods. >> > > Okay not exactly capitalistic by present-day standards. I mean handing out > money to everyone. Capitalism and socialism are both economic systems > predicated on the exchange of human labor for goods and services. With > advanced robots, human labor will be worth nothing, so we we must devise an > economy based on something else. It is easy to imagine other systems that > preserve freedom and that impose no special burden on anyone. My favorite > idea is what is proposed in this discussion: let us hand out money to > everyone, no strings attached, for nothing in return. Why not? If robots > produce the wealth, why no not just hand it out? It seems like a no-brainer > to me. > > Wealthy people will yell that they are being unfairly treated under this > system. As a wealthy person myself, let me suggest we should not listen to > what wealthy people say about money. It is like listening to diet advice > from fat people. > > - Jed > >
