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RE: Jobs Are Toast And Steem Providing A Basic Income

in #busy5 years ago

I envision a future where communities allocate labor until they can become automated. A commune can now start out at square one and evolve at an exponential rate.

At first, growing food isn't that easy, but it becomes automated. Same with building housing, roads, and other infrastructure. Each community will have their own UBI coin. As that community automates more and more jobs the UBI will become worth more because goods/services are being created automatically and there are no leeches tapping the distribution of money.

I can also imagine 100 people in a town/city getting together. Each one of them buys a 3D printer and starts creating specialized parts. Automated transportation takes the parts to where they need to go. Now they have a decentralized factory that makes a very complex product. They all use the same coin and they are all paid according to whatever blockchain politics they desire.

I truly think the future is going to get so weird and out of hand it's not even going to make sense to at least 50% of the population. However, they won't have much reason to care because they'll be taken care of, unlike the exploitative system we trudge through today.

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All very interesting point and ones I cannot disagree with @edicted.

The future will get weird, the question is how quickly. If it is within a couple decades, I think many people will be lost. Of course, the slowness of change could mean it takes more than half a century.

Life is truly going to be like a sci-fi film. We cannot imagine some of what will be around in 30-35 years.

Ray Kurzweil has predicted the Singularity will occur in 2045. At that point General Artificial Intelligence will be equal to all human intelligence in the world and will continue the exponential intelligence explosion at a rate the human mind cannot comprehend. It is for that reason Kurzweil, Verner Vinge, and other futurists opine that man is incapable if predicting what happens after that point in time.