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data-src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/bezos_big.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 class=\u0022border\u0022 width=\u0022600\u0022 height=\u0022600\u0022\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\n                \u003Cfigcaption\u003E\n                    \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/amazon-employees-food-stamps\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\n                        \u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E\n                        snopes.com\/fact-check\/amazon-employees-food-stamps\n                    \u003C\/a\u003E\n                \u003C\/figcaption\u003E\n            \u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf every single person on this planet had a roof over their head,\nfood on their plate, and access to high-quality, free education and healthcare,\nthen I promise I would sod off from ever caring about how many billions does Jeff Bezos have.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut until that day, I care a fucking lot.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThat guy can \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/HasBezosDecided\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E decide to end world hunger\u003C\/a\u003E,\nwhich would cost him only \u003Cem\u003Ea tenth\u003C\/em\u003E of his immense fortune,\nyet every single day he decides to be an absolute monster instead.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA billion dollars is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neal.fun\/spend\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E more than a single person can ever reasonably spend in their lifetime.\u003C\/a\u003E\nMeanwhile, he has 111 of them. And the only purpose that they serve is boosting this dude\u0027s fragile ego.\nI\u0027m fucking sure that he regularly jerks off to newspapers reporting his wealth.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd on the other side of the spectrum you have millions and millions of people struggling to make ends meet.\nNot just in the countries devastated by centuries of colonialist exploitation,\nbut even in what\u0027s called \u201cfirst world countries\u201d.\nNot just people who are \u201clazy\u201d, but even those that are working two jobs to support their families.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis system sucks. It sucks so, so bad.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u0027m obviously not saying everyone should earn and own the same amount of money and goods \u2013\nthat would be crazy and it might probably suck even more.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut let\u0027s redistribute the wealth at least this much so that nobody has to go hungry or homeless.\nWe can do it. We can afford it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI mean\u2026 For one, automation is coming. Nah, it\u0027s already there. It\u0027s been happening for ages.\nAnd it\u0027s not necessarily a bad thing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESure, many people will lose their jobs, and that\u0027s what media usually focuses on when discussing automation.\nBut in the long run, it\u0027s probably gonna be for the best.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAutomation doesn\u0027t just mean a robot will take your job.\nAutomation also means that there\u0027s gonna be more of nice things that require almost no effort to be created.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMaybe we shouldn\u0027t think about it as a scary chalenge \u2013 but as an exciting opportunity!\nIf we do it right, it won\u0027t kick you out of your job \u2013 it will \u003Cem\u003Eallow you\u003C\/em\u003E not to work.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf there\u0027s ten people doing a manual job who can be replaced with just one robot and one engineer to develop and maintain it,\neven if they cost three times the salary of a manual worker, at the end the same amount of goods has been created\nat just 30% of the original cost. If that process can replaces a hundred workers instead of ten\n\u2013 then the same same amount of goods can be created at 3% of the original cost.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe already have plenty of precedents of this happening, but probably none as drastic and obvious as\u2026 books!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGermany, 1440, Johannes Gutenberg is starting the revolution\nthat I\u0027d argue was the most important one in the history of humankind.\nHe builds the first printing press.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe\u0027s not just automating the manual process of copying books by hand.\nHe\u0027s giving the world the gift of accessible information.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore that, a book would cost as much as the entire village.\nI have no idea how much it\u0027d be in today\u0027s money, but probably millions.\nAnd now, 600 years later, you can get one for 10, 20, 30 bucks\u2026\nThe cost of books has dropped by 5 or 6 orders of magnitude! That\u0027s huge!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut the printing press has had way more benefits than only making books cheaper.\nIt also freed them from copying errors.\nIt gave the world an incentive to teach reading and writing to people who would otherwise stay illiterate.\nIt sped up the process of sharing knowledge practically exponentially.\nI\u0027m pretty sure that we indirectly owe like 99% of all inventions after the 16\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E century\nto the printing press.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDoes anyone think that it\u0027s sad for the monks to have lost their jobs copying scripts? Exactly!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAutomation might be sad and disruptive short-term, but will probably turn out to be way more beneficial a long run.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo there we are \u2013 in a world where things are cheaper, more available and more plenty than ever before.\nAnd yet, there\u0027s still so many who struggle for their most basic necessities.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThat\u0027s. Fucked. Up.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELet\u0027s change it. Let\u0027s tax the ultra rich and use that money to provide a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basic_income\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E Universal Basic Income to everyone\u003C\/a\u003E.\nYes, we can afford it. I just told you how filthy rich are the filthy rich\nand how automation makes things unbelivably cheap and available.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe US \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/resources\/wasted-how-america-losing-40-percent-its-food-farm-fork-landfill\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E is wasting 40% of all food\u003C\/a\u003E,\nwhile \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nokidhungry.org\/who-we-are\/hunger-facts\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E more than 11 million of their children live in food insecure homes.\u003C\/a\u003E\nWe have plenty. We just distribute it in a terribly idiotic way.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022text-center my-4\u0022\u003E\u003Ciframe width=\u0022640\u0022 height=\u0022360\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kl39KHS07Xc\u0022 frameborder=\u00220\u0022 allowfullscreen\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUBI would solve most of that.\nIt has \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasicIncomeBrit\/status\/1041725621586546688\/photo\/1\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csvg class=\u0022icon\u0022\u003E\u003Cuse xlink:href=\u0022#light-link\u0022\u003E\u003C\/use\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E plenty of advantages\u003C\/a\u003E.\nIt\u0027s the simplest social program you could imagine (and it could replace most of the existing ones).\nIt\u0027s unconditional and universal, so it doesn\u0027t require much bureaucracy or supervision.\nIt wouldn\u0027t deter people from working, as its critics claim,\nbecause its whole point is to be just high enough to cover the most basic needs, to give people\u0027s lives dignity,\nbut still keep the incentive to work, if one wants to have any more than the basics.\nAnd yes, it\u0027s expensive, but we can afford it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EActually, looking at how terribly are the most vulnerable hit during the covid-19 pandemics,\nseeing how inevitable further automation is,\nand seeing how extremely unjustly our wealth and resources are distributed \u2013\nnot only can we afford it, but I\u0027d even say \u003Cstrong\u003Ewe cannot afford \u003Cem\u003Enot\u003C\/em\u003E implementing it\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Csvg xmlns=\u0022http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\u0022 style=\u0022display: none;\u0022\u003E\u003C\/svg\u003E","tags":["ubi","universal basic income","income inequality","inequality","income","automation","filthy rich","the 1%","economy","covid","pandemics","wealth","politics","socialism","poverty"],"hasMore":true,"image":"https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/bezos_small.jpg","introLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/bezos_big.jpg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/bezos_mini.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022240\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf every single person on this planet had a roof over their head,\nfood on their plate, and access to high-quality, free education and healthcare,\nthen I promise I would sod off from ever caring about how many billions does Jeff Bezos have.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut until that day, I care a fucking lot.\u003C\/p\u003E","contentLite":"\u003Cfigure\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/bezos_big.jpg\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/avris.it\/image\/bezos_mini.jpg\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 width=\u0022240\u0022 height=\u0022240\u0022 loading=\u0022lazy\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cfigcaption\u003E\n                    \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/amazon-employees-food-stamps\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E\u003Csmall\u003Esnopes.com\/fact-check\/amazon-employees-food-stamps\u003C\/small\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\n                \u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf every single person on this planet had a roof over their head,\nfood on their plate, and access to high-quality, free education and healthcare,\nthen I promise I would sod off from ever caring about how many billions does Jeff Bezos have.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut until that day, I care a fucking lot.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThat guy can \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/HasBezosDecided\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E decide to end world hunger\u003C\/a\u003E,\nwhich would cost him only \u003Cem\u003Ea tenth\u003C\/em\u003E of his immense fortune,\nyet every single day he decides to be an absolute monster instead.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA billion dollars is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/neal.fun\/spend\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E more than a single person can ever reasonably spend in their lifetime.\u003C\/a\u003E\nMeanwhile, he has 111 of them. And the only purpose that they serve is boosting this dude\u0027s fragile ego.\nI\u0027m fucking sure that he regularly jerks off to newspapers reporting his wealth.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAnd on the other side of the spectrum you have millions and millions of people struggling to make ends meet.\nNot just in the countries devastated by centuries of colonialist exploitation,\nbut even in what\u0027s called \u201cfirst world countries\u201d.\nNot just people who are \u201clazy\u201d, but even those that are working two jobs to support their families.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis system sucks. It sucks so, so bad.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI\u0027m obviously not saying everyone should earn and own the same amount of money and goods \u2013\nthat would be crazy and it might probably suck even more.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut let\u0027s redistribute the wealth at least this much so that nobody has to go hungry or homeless.\nWe can do it. We can afford it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI mean\u2026 For one, automation is coming. Nah, it\u0027s already there. It\u0027s been happening for ages.\nAnd it\u0027s not necessarily a bad thing.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESure, many people will lose their jobs, and that\u0027s what media usually focuses on when discussing automation.\nBut in the long run, it\u0027s probably gonna be for the best.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAutomation doesn\u0027t just mean a robot will take your job.\nAutomation also means that there\u0027s gonna be more of nice things that require almost no effort to be created.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMaybe we shouldn\u0027t think about it as a scary chalenge \u2013 but as an exciting opportunity!\nIf we do it right, it won\u0027t kick you out of your job \u2013 it will \u003Cem\u003Eallow you\u003C\/em\u003E not to work.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIf there\u0027s ten people doing a manual job who can be replaced with just one robot and one engineer to develop and maintain it,\neven if they cost three times the salary of a manual worker, at the end the same amount of goods has been created\nat just 30% of the original cost. If that process can replaces a hundred workers instead of ten\n\u2013 then the same same amount of goods can be created at 3% of the original cost.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWe already have plenty of precedents of this happening, but probably none as drastic and obvious as\u2026 books!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGermany, 1440, Johannes Gutenberg is starting the revolution\nthat I\u0027d argue was the most important one in the history of humankind.\nHe builds the first printing press.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe\u0027s not just automating the manual process of copying books by hand.\nHe\u0027s giving the world the gift of accessible information.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore that, a book would cost as much as the entire village.\nI have no idea how much it\u0027d be in today\u0027s money, but probably millions.\nAnd now, 600 years later, you can get one for 10, 20, 30 bucks\u2026\nThe cost of books has dropped by 5 or 6 orders of magnitude! That\u0027s huge!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut the printing press has had way more benefits than only making books cheaper.\nIt also freed them from copying errors.\nIt gave the world an incentive to teach reading and writing to people who would otherwise stay illiterate.\nIt sped up the process of sharing knowledge practically exponentially.\nI\u0027m pretty sure that we indirectly owe like 99% of all inventions after the 16\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E century\nto the printing press.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDoes anyone think that it\u0027s sad for the monks to have lost their jobs copying scripts? Exactly!\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAutomation might be sad and disruptive short-term, but will probably turn out to be way more beneficial a long run.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESo there we are \u2013 in a world where things are cheaper, more available and more plenty than ever before.\nAnd yet, there\u0027s still so many who struggle for their most basic necessities.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThat\u0027s. Fucked. Up.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELet\u0027s change it. Let\u0027s tax the ultra rich and use that money to provide a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basic_income\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E Universal Basic Income to everyone\u003C\/a\u003E.\nYes, we can afford it. I just told you how filthy rich are the filthy rich\nand how automation makes things unbelivably cheap and available.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe US \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/resources\/wasted-how-america-losing-40-percent-its-food-farm-fork-landfill\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E is wasting 40% of all food\u003C\/a\u003E,\nwhile \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nokidhungry.org\/who-we-are\/hunger-facts\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E more than 11 million of their children live in food insecure homes.\u003C\/a\u003E\nWe have plenty. We just distribute it in a terribly idiotic way.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022text-center my-4\u0022\u003E\u003Ciframe width=\u0022640\u0022 height=\u0022360\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kl39KHS07Xc\u0022 frameborder=\u00220\u0022 allowfullscreen\u003E\u003C\/iframe\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EUBI would solve most of that.\nIt has \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/BasicIncomeBrit\/status\/1041725621586546688\/photo\/1\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener\u0022\u003E plenty of advantages\u003C\/a\u003E.\nIt\u0027s the simplest social program you could imagine (and it could replace most of the existing ones).\nIt\u0027s unconditional and universal, so it doesn\u0027t require much bureaucracy or supervision.\nIt wouldn\u0027t deter people from working, as its critics claim,\nbecause its whole point is to be just high enough to cover the most basic needs, to give people\u0027s lives dignity,\nbut still keep the incentive to work, if one wants to have any more than the basics.\nAnd yes, it\u0027s expensive, but we can afford it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EActually, looking at how terribly are the most vulnerable hit during the covid-19 pandemics,\nseeing how inevitable further automation is,\nand seeing how extremely unjustly our wealth and resources are distributed \u2013\nnot only can we afford it, but I\u0027d even say \u003Cstrong\u003Ewe cannot afford \u003Cem\u003Enot\u003C\/em\u003E implementing it\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","words":921,"readTime":4,"lang":"en"}}}}}