The big problem we saw with government-supplied basic income, is there's a single point of failure - if the government becomes too corrupt, you're out of luck.
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An alternative option would be enforcing ... That system would probably be really hard to establish ... This would probably also require
Who is the unnamed actor who does this enforcing, establishing, and requiring? A government? See first extract. Everyone? How do they come to all agree? A published standard? Who draws it up? The people with the most time on their hands?
if a company that sells its' products to other companies steps out of line, people would have to boycott that company's customers, too
How far does the contagion spread? Would there be a certain ratio of taint, perhaps equal to one for the primary offender, one-half for those failing to shun them, one-quarter for those failing to shun the non-shunners, and so on? Does this only apply to large companies, or to companies of all sizes? The self-employed? Everyone?
What stabilises the value of this fiat currency of opprobrium?
Who is the unnamed actor who does this enforcing, establishing, and requiring?
Ideally everyone, but probably with some opinion leaders and media outlets being the ones to spread the news about norm violations.
How far does the contagion spread?
I'd assumed it'd be a full boycott rather than a boycott in ratios. A half-boycott seems likely to fail for the same reasons that trying to "eat less meat" doesn't work well for humans. I'm not sure how many degrees of separation that would apply to, or even if it needs to be a specific number - in pr...
I finally got into Ello (I was mad that I couldn't get an invitation for the longest time). I found this interesting video about automation and what we should do when most jobs no longer require humans. I have often wondered what we were going to do with the millions of unemployed people when machines create untold abundance. What will we need human workers to do? I have thought that there will be certain areas where we will want to interact with people. I think bots and other machines will be more assistants rather than fully taking over tasks in a few areas. I think it will be more balanced but that does not solve the problem of millions of unemployed undermining the economy and the wealth of nations. Do we save the jobs? Do we stop automation? Is this the natural course of history? Should we all be prepared to be destitute? Should we consider minimum income proposals more closely?
The video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU&feature=youtu.be
I found it on this interesting post. He projects a much more dystopian view of the Singularity and how it will affect humanity. I think his post is not mindful of Bostrom's work which I am plowing through but it might provide some discussion fodder.
The post is here:
https://ello.co/scottdakota/post/ofb9vzDer9NoiQvwdueyAg