I started to notice a intense automation and Artificial Intelligence Investments from companies and that made me wonder, what would happen or what should be done with the people who can’t be trained for a new job and can’t use his current skills to to get a job.
How would he live or what would he do in life? More importantly, what should be done with him to make him useful or at least neutral rather than being a negative on the society?
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You could do what I plan on doing which is getting married to a rich guy and becoming a house wife.
Eat the rich, ubi.
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I am ready for my cushy CEO job pls
it’s cheaper to pay them to live a basic existence than to police them for comitting crimes.
That’s why you privatize prisons for profit and lobby to keep it that way.
at that point just turn them into soylent
People’s value doesn’t lie in their ability to perform labor. Being “useful” isn’t important. What should be done, is that everyone should have their needs met so they can do with their lives what they want. There’s a lot of theoretical ways to try and do that, but none of them are of interest in a capitalist society.
I love this comment. Now we’ve dealt with that, what are we gonna do with bored rich folk like Musk or JK Rowling whose entire purpose seems to be creating division and hate?
Work less as a society, so finally switch to the 32h weeks and setup the Universal basic income, it would allow to share the work (because someone needs to pick-up the thrash) and leverage on the productivity gains to benefit to everyone.
Provide training, and support life-long education, you should keep your unemployment rights while attending university as an adult for example, but also offer more short training including some level update for people whose skill got rusty in a previous job.
Promote non merchant activities. A volunteer who coaches kids sport or plays amateur theatre in nursing home and hospital does more good to society than a marketing corporate executive, why are the latter seen as more important ?
What does “can’t be trained for a new job” mean? Why? What’s keeping them from learning a new thing?
Age and cognitive ability naturally.
That doesn’t mean much. If a person is too old to learn a new job, they should be able to retire. If a person’s cognitive ability is THAT low, so low they can’t learn the simplest of jobs, they should probably be in some care facility or (better) be cared for at home with their caretakers (who’ve had proper training) receiving adequate compensation. Why are we talking, in this context, about people who are unable to work anyway?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m very much against what we’ve come to call “AI” and how it’s taking over everything.
What if their wages hadn’t allowed them to build up a 401k? They likely won’t be able to survive on social security alone.
I don’t even really know what a 401k is, I’m not from the US. The fact that globally social security systems are failing due to neglect and tax gifts for the rich is a whole other issue.
Fancy savings account for retirement that’s stored in stocks so it can explode at any point. Basic perquisite to ever retire in the US. Many people don’t have them.
In the US, pensions have become extremely rare, and were mostly replaced with a 401k, which is essentially a tax deferred stock market account. Often your employer will match contributions that you put into it up to a certain point.
Alright. Sounds like bullshit that you’re going to have to deal with, whether or not we’re facing the AI apocalypse, and I sympathise.
Expect violence.
People have a right to exist and society has a responsibility to care for those who cannot work. The whole point of society is to ensure the health and well being of their members as a WHOLE. If a society cannot or will not care for their elderly or infirm then that is a failed society.
Those who can work, should. Those who cannot should be taken care of by those who can. Comprehensive training programs and free education helps both, as well as subsized or free necessities.
Rich people both wish for them to die and also at the same time buy all the products their stock portfolio need to show value.
What we should do is grind up just a few mega rich and create a healthy socal safety net to make sure everyone is safe and well fed.
We should build an army of them to kill all the porkies who think unemployable people are negatives on society
Universal Basic Income.
More importantly, what should be done with him to make him useful or at least neutral rather than being a negative on the society?
They are part of the society. Stop pitting the individual against the society and vice versa, if a society can’t support its members it needs to be abolished.
Jonathan Swift offered A Modest Proposal.
