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SwagJerryRice  ·  3901 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Three trends that push us towards an unconditional basic income

I, much like many I know, hold a pessimistic short-term view (gee, this job market sure sucks, don't it?) but an optimistic long-term (we'll be able to solve a lot of endemic problems to society once we get a little deeper into the singularity). I'm a proponent of a neo-socialist state in a post-scarcity society, seeing a guaranteed income as necessary for society to function when 90% of the population will simply not have a job.