Socialism is so far both unviable and unnattractive. the day scarcity of resources is solved, if ever, certainly not in any generation too soon after ours, it'll only be unnattractive

Socialism will never be viable as it still operates on the principles of scarcity, implying that there are only so many resources available and its immoral to allow any one person to own "too much"

my point being it could work in a completely different world

When and if scarcity is solved then we will have to come up with a completely new system of economics from scratch

I wouldn't imagine I'd ever see such a world, or even wish to participate in it, I'm just saying

I dont think scarcity will ever be solved

We will annihilate ourselves before then

maybe

though if the fusion tech tree bears fruit, maybe not

Whatever economic illiterates want to say capitalism is the best economic system we presently have

Although it will be interesting to see how A.I. changes that

best is a bit of a stretch. I'd simply call it the one with the lowest failure rate and most outwardly attractive

Thus meaning the best we have currently ^

I'm not comfortable calling a system best when its so easily manipulated into boom-bust cycles

The fact that it has lifted the entire western world out of destitution and poverty helps its case

I don't even think we know the mechanisms by which a capitalist economy fully functions

Most conservatives should be in favor of A.I. and UBI as A.I. progresses

like, from a manipulation perspective

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/12/05/hillary-clinton-trump-made-me-sick-to-my-stomach-pardoning-war-criminals/

as a conservative, I don't agree

Milton Freeman the father of modern conservative economics talks about it extensively

of course not. Economists are in the business of making determinations against certainties or uncertainties, not guarantees

but make a case

The entire point of UBI is similar to what goes on in Alaska, rather than the money just going to the government it goes to the citizens

oh jesus fuck, the worst person in the country to bitch about chumming up with war criminals

great, now no one will care

thank you, you devil

Alaska does this with the oil companies up there, the governor basically said "well we have to tax them more, do you want the money or should it be turned over to the feds"

Alaskans presently get 2k a year from oil money

This would have to be more heavily considered as automation starts to do away with more and more jobs

wonder how Texas doesn't get that from its oil and gold infrastructure

Unarmed security, food service, trucking, clerical work and call center work etc.

Trucking is the most populated industry in the country and that industry is seeing the predawn glow of automation and will be largely automated for OTR operations, local jobs will still exist but thats up in the air with stores doing more direct deliveries from DCs

Food service would be laughably easy to automate and so would call centers and clerical jobs

Acounting

Etc.

As the digital era advances our service economy will disappear in favor of an information economy

I am somewhat insulated from this as a comp science major but not everyone can be one

So do we just let the feds scoop up all that money in corporate taxes or do we do what alaska did?

Yeah, dad being a software engineer doesn't hurt

Where the oil companies pay a dividend to the citizens rather than higher taxes