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PretentiousCellarOar t1_j2831yt wrote

Reply to comment by Zealousideal_Ad3783 in How are we feeling about a possible UBI? by theshadowturtle

Is this a bit? I don’t mean it in an insulting way; I’m genuinely not sure.

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Zealousideal_Ad3783 t1_j283qwp wrote

No

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PretentiousCellarOar t1_j286cnc wrote

Oh ok, thanks. I’m never sure honestly.

Wouldn’t you say the automation of factory jobs in the American interior has decreased the living standard of many former factory workers and factory towns? In aggregate and over time, automation increases the general standard of living. No question. But the danger many of us are seeing is in the in-between period where huge swaths of labor, even high paying, supposedly stable jobs, are being eradicated over a relatively tiny period.

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