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

Okay, so first, so if the government is in such little need of taxes that they are actually giving tax money to the citizenry, why don't they just tax the citizens at 0% and make the companies pay for everything instead of UBI?

Of course current pricing models will completely collapse when wages are eliminated

maybe oil companies could directly subsidize gas prices

or is that too short a circuit

U are assuming that if a company CAN eliminate a job in place of automation, they will

Why did Ford begin paying his workers a higher wage?

If its a net financial benefit, yes

corporations are machines, we created them to fulfil one purpose, create wealth

It might of not been ford, I am dumb, general motors,

for good or ill, that's what they'll do

because General Motors is on thin fucking ice after the.... fuck, was it the first or second recession

Who did Trump pardon that's supposedly a war criminal?

whichever one was during Obama's first term

Idk, my point here is that the owner of general motors began paying his workers a far higher wage because he needed people to be able to buy his cars

off the top of my head I'd guess the Gallagher case

Im speaking of the past, like in the 20's

Oh yeah, that Manning dude.

well no fucking shit, in the 20s you had basic bitch manual operated machines

fast food is def gonna keep automating as min wage increases

oh the kid who reported on civi killings from US military drone strikes?

Oil companies are already lowering gas prices. Indirectly. The shale revolution has altered the entire crack chain so lite ends (like gas) have become cheaper because shale produces more of them.