49% support universal basic income

[tiggat]

No they won't

Today they might be. This inability/refusal to see past the immediate future and think a bit more long term is part of the problem.

Do you not see automation happening on a pretty large scale (I assume you work in IT)? Where do you think it is heading?

Amazon makes first drone delivery - BBC News

History shows technology has always created jobs, why would it be different this time ?

[swamp]

Automation is expensive and its level balances the availablity of (cheap) workers. British factories are less automated than French ones, as evidenced by our lower productivity.

Automation isn't going to put large numbers of people out of work because it would be cheaper to employ at least some of them as human robots.

[bobspud]

God, sounds like some Orwellian, dystopian scenario.

Added to that, the safespace snowflake generation will be running the show.

Wonder where free speech will be then?

You only need to see how far Jack Straw and Tony Blair fell from their left wing freedom principles to know the snowflakes will turn into fascists at the first sign of power...

[vetran]

Economists are no more use than a high priestess reading runes...

One might argue that readin pig entrails has more integrity...

so that was what CMD was doing, trying to get the entrails out of the mouth.

[vetran]

Scotland, for example?

Maybe Eire & Holland?

Double Irish With A Dutch Sandwich

[PhiltheGreek]

Double Irish With A Dutch Sandwich

My naval training tells me not to that link

[vetran]

My naval training tells me not to that link

yep the taxpayer is getting screwed by the EU.

[greenlake]

My naval training tells me not to that link

Bad memories of getting caught motorboating....?

[PhiltheGreek]

Bad memories of getting caught motorboating....?

Nothing bad about a walk down mammary lane

[original PM]

That makes no sense. Inflation is a concern, of course but people say that about minimum wage too.

What I mean is - if I do nothing and get paid 12 grand but if I get a job and get paid 16 grand - in real terms I am only 4 grand better off than the guy who sits on his arse doing nothing.

Therefore all prices will take into account that you get 12 grand for zero productivity and so my 16 grand becomes 4 grand.

A very simplistic way to look at it but as soon as someone can put zero in but take something out somewhere along the line the system will fail.