it's one thing when you vote for someone who at least has the facade of supporting gun rights, and then they betray that notion

it is another when they are already saying what they'll do to diminish your rights

he tweeted he's going to fund the UBI by fining gun companies 1 million dollars every time someone innocent dies from their guns

at least, i saw an image for it. i cannot confirm if its true as i don't use twitter

which is retarded and would actually be a ton of work to do

unless the government just becomes even more tyrannical and issues out fines like free candy

oh boy

sounds a lot like my country

because if they did it in a proper way, it'd be a whole lot of paperwork and take a long time

except the money goes to the politicians pockets instead of the country

also that would set up a very ugly precedent, where individual responsibility is diminished further and entities take on that burden

it'd lead to more regulation not just in the gun industry but the whole economy

at best, yang is a foolish idealist who has no footing in reality

at worst he is doing this all with malicious intent

i am a bit of an idealist, but i also try to stay grounded because it is easy to just be lost in the world of the ideal

that's right. by fining the companies, you're effectively saying that the guns are at fault and not the gun user

yes

and that will be applied to other products, because why wouldn't it?

it is one thing when it is a civil lawsuit against a company

it is another when it is the government itself dishing out these fines

it also elevates the role of government to judge

Too many people think “automation” will just appear over night. So their solution is government money to support unemployment.

Or laws to slow down technology.

Automated trucking, like what was mentioned in the video, is something we know is desired. It’s currently a long way off though. With that in mind, the trucking industry should be looking into compensating for that shift when it happens.

Obviously the first wave of self driving trucks will be incredibly expensive and out of reach for most businesses.

Shit most tech we have now was once incredibly expensive

I think the best policy is for the government to allow/encourage businesses to progress everywhere so that when that “sudden” change happens, millions of people aren’t out of work.

Yeah that’s true.

Adjusted for inflation a black and white 13 inch TV costs more than a 70 inch 4K smart TV

Phones did the same thing.

@Andrules A fully automated industry will put a lot of people out of work. Sure, new jobs will come out of that, but the goal is to have a society where people don't need to work as hard. 1k a month helps get people on their feet. I know it sounds unrealistic, and Yang is definitely ahead of his time.

But this isn't something that is 'unrealistic' in the future.

I mean, people thought electricity was sorcery once. People thought Y2k and shit.

I don't think anyone thought electricity was magic. It's a relatively recent discovery.

Y2K bug made sense, because no computer had ever seen a millennial change

There was a bug in one of the windows OS that after X number of hours of nonstop use, the software would have a catastrophic failure.

cite where people thought "electricity was sorcery"

no, yang is not "ahead of his time"

what he talks about is nothing groundbreaking or profound

it has been a legitimate concern for the last 20 years

tech people have been talking about the rise of automation for a long while