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by sokoloff 3696 days ago
You're suggesting that people that would be considered "dumb" today will suddenly start inventing automation of street cleaning, trash collection, and the like if we implement a basic income and better education?

That strikes me as an extraordinary claim.

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Yeah, it's more like the people owning the waste companies that would try to drive up automation because of the high costs associated with manual labor.