Terrible, extremely rare anomalous conditions. The car will likely be able to identify the existence of that kind of anomaly. You will have to drive your autonomous car 0.4% of the time.
90% of drivers need a range of over 50 miles a day, less than twice a year.
The vast majority of households could use an EV as their primary vehicle, a daily commuter. Relying on a second vehicle or rental for the longer trips.
A union is just a corporation that serves to equalize the negotiation power between employer and employee. The unions negotiates on behalf of the well being of its owners/clients... just like any corporation. Without a union, the absolute inequity of power between employer and employee is so disproportionate in almost every market that fair compensation can not virtually impossible to negotiate. The few exceptions are those markets that retain extremely low unemployment such as software development. Terms of a contract made under threat are invalid, without the backing of a union or extremely low unemployment in ones field, all employment contracts are made under threat on unemployment, which with America's economy and lack of welfare is a slow death sentence.
And why do you think that the customer base will decline? The price of snorkels is low enough that the primary limiting factors are not price, but rather having the time and location to snorkel. And with hundreds of millions of people freed from the burden of constant labor, just to survive, you likely have more people able to dedicate some small portion of their time and income towards snorkeling.
Its not a matter of being lazy, these are people who want to work and survive who are being murdered by the intentional economic action of idiots like you. It is your fault, just as directly as if you pulled the trigger yourself.
Depends on just how automated things are. I would say that right now? It isn't really practical. But with another 45% automation things change. There just won't be enough work to go around.
Most people do have the drive to work towards having luxury goods and services, even if their basic needs are met.
Some people will drop out, satisfied by roof over their head, food in their stomach and an internet connection.
But I would bet that most of the things on your list of things to do when you have no work obligation will require something more than that. You may work less, or you may set your sights on higher goals. It would be your choice.
And besides that, there really are only two options. Live... Or die. Unless we divorce work and survival, when there is 45% less work, a major fraction of people will put in a non-survival position. AKA killed, be it by slow starvation or by actual violence. The reason for this is like you said, a lot of those jobs that are automated will not be replaced by similar jobs, and some fraction of those disenfranchised people will not be able to retrain to those creative jobs.
Providing a basic income capable of covering housing, food, transportation (as well as socialized medical care and education).
Or the intentional death of millions who can no longer provide the basic necessities for themselves and their families, AKA murder in the name of profit. An escalation of the class warfare already being waged by the plutocrats against the people to genocidal proportions.
Only the first option will allow society to continue to exist, the second will not.
That is why you change the economic system. Divorce survival from having a job and then a job becomes a means of pursuing your dreams instead of just putting food on your table or a roof over your head.
On the other hand, if no one NEEDS to earn a wage, what is stopping them from deciding to take up snorkeling in their increased amount of free time?
I for one would be happy if the survival of my family was not tied to my job. I could pick a job I enjoy more to work full time at... Or simply work fewer hours.
You wouldn't be giving away free snorkels and swim fins.
You would be selling them, and a large portion of your profit would be taxed.
Those taxes (along with the taxes on all over profit) would pay for each citizens basic minimum income.
The majority of that basic minimum income would pay for things like rent, food, utilities and transportation.
As a luxury goods producer, you won't be getting much of that back.
However, the people who do the remaining 55% of work will still be buying luxury goods like swim fins and snorkels. And since that 55% of work will likely be spread over more than 55% of the population, they will have more time to actually use those swim fins and snorkels in their free time, driving your profits higher.
This maintains a capitalist system even in the face of recognizing survival as a basic human right and allowing the government to actually defend that right.
At that point, it would be better to throw up your hands and admit that basic survival is a human right, and not tied to ones job. Then just give everyone a basic minimum income, enough to cover rent, food, utilities and transportation along with socializing health care and education.
The people who are bored if they don't work will still want to work. The people unsatisfied with the minimum will still want to work to access luxury goods and services. We can still have a merit based capitalist society, where the driven and capable far outstrip the lazy or weak. In fact, it would likely be a golden age of human productivity as people are more likely to pursue their greatest dreams rather than toil just to survive.
No, productivity to the result of labor alone. Someone who can "sit on your ass and collect interest" is not productive, but a leach on the productivity of others.
Automation improves the life experience of the plutocrats by creating an artificial scarcity of work, driving your perceived value as a human being lower. So that not only do they profit from the labor generated by the machine, they can profit by lowering your benefits on threat of simply removing you from the workforce. Which in much of America is now a slow death sentence, because so few people own the land and have the skills for subsistence survival outside the job market.
I tend to agree with this. However instead of cutting the hours required for both basic survival and luxury goods and services... you could cut the hours of work required for basic survival to 0.
With that level of automation, the basic necessities of survival might eventually be provided to every person for free. Enabling people to pursue work they enjoy or to secure luxury goods and services.
Now is the time to recognize that a job should not be the sole determining factor of human worth in a capitalist society.
There will be far more than enough wealth generation to provide every person in this country a basic minimum income capable of covering housing, food, transportation and basic utilities/connectivity plus a modest surplus for psychological needs such as clothing or occasional entertainment. Add socialized healthcare and education to that and you have the workings of practical utopia.
There would be no need for a minimum wage any more, the basic income provides that. With enough automation, work could become entirely voluntary, rather than a prerequisite for survival. Perhaps a lot of people will choose not to work at all. But most people will not be satisfied with the bare necessities, they will work to acquire luxury goods and services.
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I would love to get more nuke plants built.
There does not however appear to be a place in the universe where time is bidirectional.
Terrible, extremely rare anomalous conditions. The car will likely be able to identify the existence of that kind of anomaly. You will have to drive your autonomous car 0.4% of the time.
These are conditions that are also unsafe for humans to drive in.
it would be if time were not effectively a monopolar dimension.
not exactly...
The time dimension doesn't behave in the same way as the others. If it did, then the past would be just as accessible as the future.
its all that special smoke they use to sedate the bees.
A union has no motive to threaten the survival of a corporation, as that is not in the interests of the unions client/shareholders.
And even if it did, yes, the survival of a corporation is meaningless compared to the survival of a human being.
90% of drivers need a range of over 50 miles a day, less than twice a year.
The vast majority of households could use an EV as their primary vehicle, a daily commuter. Relying on a second vehicle or rental for the longer trips.
A union is just a corporation that serves to equalize the negotiation power between employer and employee. The unions negotiates on behalf of the well being of its owners/clients... just like any corporation. Without a union, the absolute inequity of power between employer and employee is so disproportionate in almost every market that fair compensation can not virtually impossible to negotiate. The few exceptions are those markets that retain extremely low unemployment such as software development. Terms of a contract made under threat are invalid, without the backing of a union or extremely low unemployment in ones field, all employment contracts are made under threat on unemployment, which with America's economy and lack of welfare is a slow death sentence.
And why do you think that the customer base will decline? The price of snorkels is low enough that the primary limiting factors are not price, but rather having the time and location to snorkel. And with hundreds of millions of people freed from the burden of constant labor, just to survive, you likely have more people able to dedicate some small portion of their time and income towards snorkeling.
Using a backhoe, YOU are more productive.
Someone else using a backhoe doesn't make YOU productive.
Perhaps. But I see just as many actual people taking exactly that stance.
Its not a matter of being lazy, these are people who want to work and survive who are being murdered by the intentional economic action of idiots like you. It is your fault, just as directly as if you pulled the trigger yourself.
Depends on just how automated things are. I would say that right now? It isn't really practical. But with another 45% automation things change. There just won't be enough work to go around.
Most people do have the drive to work towards having luxury goods and services, even if their basic needs are met.
Some people will drop out, satisfied by roof over their head, food in their stomach and an internet connection.
But I would bet that most of the things on your list of things to do when you have no work obligation will require something more than that. You may work less, or you may set your sights on higher goals. It would be your choice.
And besides that, there really are only two options. Live... Or die. Unless we divorce work and survival, when there is 45% less work, a major fraction of people will put in a non-survival position. AKA killed, be it by slow starvation or by actual violence. The reason for this is like you said, a lot of those jobs that are automated will not be replaced by similar jobs, and some fraction of those disenfranchised people will not be able to retrain to those creative jobs.
There are only 2 directions we can go in...
Providing a basic income capable of covering housing, food, transportation (as well as socialized medical care and education).
Or the intentional death of millions who can no longer provide the basic necessities for themselves and their families, AKA murder in the name of profit. An escalation of the class warfare already being waged by the plutocrats against the people to genocidal proportions.
Only the first option will allow society to continue to exist, the second will not.
That is why you change the economic system. Divorce survival from having a job and then a job becomes a means of pursuing your dreams instead of just putting food on your table or a roof over your head.
On the other hand, if no one NEEDS to earn a wage, what is stopping them from deciding to take up snorkeling in their increased amount of free time?
I for one would be happy if the survival of my family was not tied to my job. I could pick a job I enjoy more to work full time at... Or simply work fewer hours.
No.
You wouldn't be giving away free snorkels and swim fins.
You would be selling them, and a large portion of your profit would be taxed.
Those taxes (along with the taxes on all over profit) would pay for each citizens basic minimum income.
The majority of that basic minimum income would pay for things like rent, food, utilities and transportation.
As a luxury goods producer, you won't be getting much of that back.
However, the people who do the remaining 55% of work will still be buying luxury goods like swim fins and snorkels. And since that 55% of work will likely be spread over more than 55% of the population, they will have more time to actually use those swim fins and snorkels in their free time, driving your profits higher.
This maintains a capitalist system even in the face of recognizing survival as a basic human right and allowing the government to actually defend that right.
At that point, it would be better to throw up your hands and admit that basic survival is a human right, and not tied to ones job. Then just give everyone a basic minimum income, enough to cover rent, food, utilities and transportation along with socializing health care and education.
The people who are bored if they don't work will still want to work. The people unsatisfied with the minimum will still want to work to access luxury goods and services. We can still have a merit based capitalist society, where the driven and capable far outstrip the lazy or weak. In fact, it would likely be a golden age of human productivity as people are more likely to pursue their greatest dreams rather than toil just to survive.
No, productivity to the result of labor alone. Someone who can "sit on your ass and collect interest" is not productive, but a leach on the productivity of others.
Automation improves the life experience of the plutocrats by creating an artificial scarcity of work, driving your perceived value as a human being lower. So that not only do they profit from the labor generated by the machine, they can profit by lowering your benefits on threat of simply removing you from the workforce. Which in much of America is now a slow death sentence, because so few people own the land and have the skills for subsistence survival outside the job market.
I tend to agree with this. However instead of cutting the hours required for both basic survival and luxury goods and services... you could cut the hours of work required for basic survival to 0.
With that level of automation, the basic necessities of survival might eventually be provided to every person for free. Enabling people to pursue work they enjoy or to secure luxury goods and services.
Now is the time to recognize that a job should not be the sole determining factor of human worth in a capitalist society.
There will be far more than enough wealth generation to provide every person in this country a basic minimum income capable of covering housing, food, transportation and basic utilities/connectivity plus a modest surplus for psychological needs such as clothing or occasional entertainment. Add socialized healthcare and education to that and you have the workings of practical utopia.
There would be no need for a minimum wage any more, the basic income provides that. With enough automation, work could become entirely voluntary, rather than a prerequisite for survival. Perhaps a lot of people will choose not to work at all. But most people will not be satisfied with the bare necessities, they will work to acquire luxury goods and services.
If there was any good in "free corporate speech", it would not involve anonymity that compromises the political and economic liberty of real people.