Bill Gates supports higher capital gains taxes as well as EITC which is a form of Negative Income Tax, and in his hypothetical we’re going to need a lot of engineers and mechanics to make it work.
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realitista@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Sounds great. Only question is how we get paid well enough to live. A question which went conveniently unasked and unanswered.
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 1 year ago
realitista@lemm.ee 1 year ago
okay I’ll take it. Bill is one of the few that’s actually thinking things through at least.
Acters@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We should stop measuring our productivity in hourly and need to go back to salary well paying positions, or everyone needs to share the costs with UBI instead.
realitista@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Good luck convincing companies to change anything that won’t make them more money. I think the only way it can happen is with UBI, hopefully funded by the hoarded assets of the few biggest companies and billionaires where all the money is getting accumulated.
zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
You mean the people who don’t think healthcare should be a right also would not be down with UBI? I’m shocked I tell you. Shocked.
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Salaried wages don’t make sense for a whole lot of positions tho
ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
“machines can make all the food and stuff”
Don’t see any reason why we couldn’t have maintainence and repair robots as well, so what manufacturing employees?
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There will, for all of the foreseeable future, be a human element in every manufacturing or farming process.