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Elon Musk Thinks Automation Will Lead to a Universal Basic Income
“I’m not sure what else one would do.” In addition to addressing issues at SpaceX, Elon Musk spent some time during a Friday CNBC interview addressing how automation will impact the job market. Musk’s Tesla Motors is leading the way to self-driving cars, while also pushing factories to new levels of automation. And he thinks that workers displaced by those and other forms of automation will need help permanently, and on a broad scale.
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This is the problem when smart people think that everyone else is also smart. No, Elon, this is not going to happen because most people actually find meaning in doing low-skill manual labor that can easily be done by robots. If you use automation to eliminate those jobs they'll either revolt or bring some psychopath to power. Look at what's happening now, and we're not even close to what you're talking about.
People will reject being kept as pets on subsistence rations. It's pure folly to think living on a stipend is going to propel humans to self actualization.