Is the idea of a universal basic income inevitable?
No one can stop the idea whose time has come
Did you support the idea that one day computer should come, did you support the idea that one day internet should come...These all are just evolution.
Evolution of capabilities of human mind and power.
So Today We will be talking about-Livelihood without any Job. or Free Basic Income to all Because you are born as humans. This can be the biggest idea of 21st century.
Lets see how
As technology will evolve it will keep Generating as well as Eliminating jobs.
Generating at the speed of 10, eliminating at the speed of 1000.
Generating in only few sectors like software, big data analytics etc ,mostly to speed up automation. Eliminating in others sectors like in few years self driven cars may eliminate drivers, online education will eliminate teachers(Of course Mentors will be there), coaching institutes etc.
But Do we need to worry about future Jobless Society. No not at all...Just think of basic. Why Human Have made machines.
Of course To reduce his effort---earlier Industrial Revolution 1.0 made Horses free from Horse cart. Now Industrial Revolution 4.0 will free humans from both labor and most mental work.
Solution of mass Unemployment lies in Simply by not doing job for money.
But next Q arise that how we will sustain without money.
Answer is - those who own these super effecient automated machines, Rich Capitalist have to provide free Money to people who lost their jobs because of them, otherwise revolt will happen. And we also know that if all people become poor, whom these super rich people will sell their product.
If no body is having money, nobody will be able to buy anything...ultimately these rich will also become poor in just one day.
This will be lead to a new kind of Economic System=(Capitalism + communism) also called GANDHIAN ECONOMIC SYSTEM. where rich will act as trustee of the wealth they generated from society, not the owner.
- Capitalism, as this new economic system will be still looking for best way of doing things, maximum profit, maximum efficiency.
- Communism, as in this economic system, people will be provided free doles so that they do not revolt.
Right now, people can brush that off by saying "get an education". The problem is, that's self-limiting. We're already seeing the effects where more and more people are graduating college and have a harder and harder time finding a job. When everyone's educated, education becomes worth much less. PhD Holders applying for peon post in India. Similar things are happening everywhere.
(Just think of the day when self driven cars will be on roads at massive scale....how govt will tackle unemployment of millions of car drivers, truck drivers etc. they have to be supported by someone either directly by rich people or through govt by taxing these rich.)
Yes, There will be People who still will be working that that will be voluntarily, mostly in research, health sector and for managing those automated system.
World Political System will have to transform into ONE SINGLE GOVT. based on GANDHIAN TRUSTEESHIP MODEL
It will be something like Satya Yuga (Sat Yuga) "the Era of Truth" according to Indian philosophy, when humanity is governed by moral values. There will be no poverty, hunger, theft etc.
Love for each other. respect for parents, compassion, sympathy with every creature on earth, These will be work of Future Human. Basically job with caring and humanly qualities will be most demanding. Job of Nurse is one of them.
Lets continue. HOW Satyug is imminent....
What are human needs, why most people WORK because we all need money to survive , we STUDY so that we can get job and with that money we can buy basic necessities of life(Food, cloth, housing, health) + some recreation enjoyment activities
What if computers/robots work for you and provide you all these basic things...then human can just enjoy his life. How is it possible? It is possible because mother earth gives us all things. Food, Housing..etc everything. It is possible because we human (including our all ancestors) have work hard and will work hard for some more years to create a self satisfying system which will provide us all necessary things.
Sun is the ultimate source of energy. Mother Earth gives us everything.
- Till now we worked because there was no one to work for us and there was always more demand than supply( Due to population increase and less advanced technology to produce food and energy).
Things are going to change in both above situations,
- Robots, Automation, Artificial Intelligence + new technology in every field from GM agriculture to shared economy. Everything will produce more than human requirement
- Human just does have to control its population, which will happen about 2060
But this will happen after a lot of chaos and destruction of present economic system.
SEE HOW
Capitalism(Profitism, innovation, renewables, increased inequality, Automation, Robotics, loss of jobs at mass scale) ---->Social Upheaval---->Riots---->Even 3rd world war like situation---->Govt change---->one single World Govt--->Every Sector of economy controlled by Govt as Trustee ----> Robots will perform most of things for human..will provide food, clothes, housing, daily consumption things.
This trusteeship Govt. will provide everything human wants. Humans will just enjoy their life because they are born as HUMANS. We humans(including our ancestors) have worked hard to reach at this stage.
At now it looks like utopean idea, how can human enjoy everything without doing any JOB (compulsory, voluntary many people will work and persue their interest but not for monetary benefits, because we all want to contribute something to society. ......ask yourself , Don't you.)
Also, It looks like an idea of socialism but no its not even that, Socialism Failed because it did not provide any incentive structure for humans to work that result into inefficiency ---->less supply---->high demand---->artificial price rise---->inflation ---->poverty.
Socialism collapsed because of its failure to operate under a competitive, profit-and-loss system of accounting. Under profit system firms that are the most efficient and most successful at serving the public interest are rewarded with profits. Firms that operate inefficiently and fail to serve the public interest are penalized with losses.
A competitive profit system ensures a constant reoptimization of resources and moves the economy toward greater levels of efficiency.
Under socialist system, there was no profit-and-loss system of accounting to accurately measure the success or failure of various programs. Without incentives the results were spiraling cycle of poverty and misery. Instead of continually reallocating resources towards greater efficiency, socialism fell into a vortex of inefficiency and failure.
Presently
The real truth is that we've become so efficient at building and producing things that 90% of the population could be living happy, fulfilled lives doing absolutely nothing. Our level of technology and automation is that good and increasing at lightening speed.
So how will this play out?
Well first, corporations will start to fire more and more people as a result of increased automation. This is already happening, and you can see it in the news every day.
This trend may continue for decades, but it's only temporary. If everybody is firing all the time, you end up with a world full of poor people. And poor people are bad for the economy.
By this time, corporations will figure out they're eating their own tail. If people can't afford to buy stuff, they can't make any money. And they can't start hiring again, because remember - there aren't any jobs that machines can't do!
This is a point where our society will be forced to transform at it's core. It's going to be a very, very rough ride with two possible outcomes:
1) A third world war, followed by a significantly reduced world population and infrastructural damage. This will provide grounds to continue the current economic system by providing jobs again (which were created due to sheer reduction in total population and the war damage that needs to be repaired for decades to come)(This is what America+ISIS keeps doing with its dummy war in middle east countries...Iraq, seria, afganistan etc.)
2) A reformed, new type of society with wealth distributed across the world, where people would not be expected to work for a corporation or earn a wage, but to meaningfully contribute to the further progression of the humanity.(Courtesy : peter)
Gandhiji Once said there is enough for everyone's need, but not for one's Greed.
Lets hope and propagate for 2nd scenario.............!!!!!
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