Automation will cause a tsunami of job destruction in the US over the next 10 to 15 years, not only blue-collar but white collar too. The amount of human devastation this will cause, on top of what is already a society riddled with despair, leads me to support Yang’s UBI proposal
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“Human devastation” - a rather extreme term! New tech aims at shifting the dull, dangerous and dirty jobs to machines. So yes, existing jobs are under threat but the door is wide open for us to grab the exciting new jobs. Why is change always perceived as a threat?
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Replying to @SimerjeetSingh
Change isn’t a threat, and this could bring great possibilities over the next 100 years. But short term, “human devastation” is not too strong an expression for what this could bring into the lives of many people not in a position to take advantage of those great possibilities.

Mar 1, 2019 · 3:28 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
There is going to be short term “human discomfort” not “devastation” and as always humans will adapt to the new competitors. Policy makers should be focusing on how to integrate these new technologies quickly into the workforce so that greater value addition can be achieved.