Guaranteed Income as Quantitative Easing

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Someone explain please how consumer economy prosperity works without an ultimately unsustainable expanding population.

It can't and the consequences are dire.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by nailer

It can't and the consequences are dire.

http://joebageant.net/?p=246

Population growth is the rhino in the playpen, the root cause of our approaching eco-disaster that that no one honestly talks about. On the left we get an onslaught of information about what we must and must not do to prevent climate change. Good Democrats get Al Gore’s advice, which somehow never mentions the corporations doing the damage. And all of America gets feel-good electric car ads — buy your way out of the problem, or at least your guilt if you happen to have any. But nowhere do we get an honest discussion about population growth. If you care to, argue that climate change may or may not destroy us. But uncontrolled population growth is guaranteed to do the job. As an old Idaho rancher told me, "You can’t run a hundred head of cattle on half an acre."

[donquixote99]

Indeed. Very far ahead. Not always easy to get, takes a lot of unpacking sometimes. But well worth the effort.

[Pio1980]

Why not both, workers who are also thinking ideas folk.
Doable with a living wage and the time.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

Why not both, workers who are also thinking ideas folk.
Doable with a living wage and the time.

Whatever it takes to get away from this soul sucking notion that one has to work 40-50 hours a week for 40-50 years just to survive.

[donquixote99]

Tom, be sure to respond properly to the substance of whell's post.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Tom, be sure to respond properly to the substance of whell's post.

Eat shit and die, you bastard motherfucker.

[donquixote99]

A good response to silly trolling!

[donquixote99]

You are being too technical and literal in your interpretation of the word 'robotics.' Automation is probably better for what we're talking about, but robots keep getting cheaper and easier to program.

And smarter. This last will soon enable very good AI-based customer service programs to replace humans taking phone calles. Many will say the calls are now being taken by a robot. As you understand robots, that is ridiculous, but I fear you'll have to cope with such lay usage.

[donquixote99]

You don't see a knee happening in the worker-displacement curve?