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  • PhilMcGraw@lemmy.worldtoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comSkill
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    6 months ago

    Agreed, but I don’t think the world’s ready for that. We’ll probably let masses of people starve to death/resort to crime before we start paying people a UBI or an alternate arrangement that allows people to feed themselves when they are unable to find work.


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    6 months ago

    Yeah, a jobs a job, it should pay a living wage at a minimum. I guess the difference is supply and demand. Anyone can stock shelves at a supermarket, making the employee pool large, meaning they can lower the wage and still get someone desperate.

    The government needs to step in and force companies to make that “lower wage” at least liveable.

    Although to be honest that may speed up the implementation of robot shelf stockers, which creates another set of problems.