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A left-leaning think tank allied to Britain's soon-to-be Labour government has published a report that gives clues about future responses to automation and rejects UBI. (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Government created jobs would get obviously dumb really fast if they're implemented with any kind of kindness. How many times can one dig and then fill in a hole, or equivalent, before one questions why?

I'm afraid it would be a mean implementation that leaves a good chunk of the population uncovered and desperate, and makes the do-nothing government positions a prestige thing. Y'know, almost like Britain used to be, but this time the peasants actually are disposable.