Capitalism is supposed to serve humanity, not the other way around. When this stops happening, if we don't have an alternative system...well, I shudder to think.
who said that? seriously, the goal of capitalism is to maximize capital however it may be defined!
once serious automation takes holds not all meat popsicles will be of worth equally.. even today humans in US are worth a lot more than say iraq. this will only get worse as haves can have entire production capacity without giving 'handouts' to the poor burger flipper just made obsolete by robot. IMO the time for UBI or such schemes is before serious automation hits so we can scale it up NOT after as it'll be too late then. It rarely happens that people give up power & influence voluntarily.
once serious automation takes holds not all meat popsicles will be of worth equally.. even today humans in US are worth a lot more than say iraq. this will only get worse as haves can have entire production capacity without giving 'handouts' to the poor burger flipper just made obsolete by robot. IMO the time for UBI or such schemes is before serious automation hits so we can scale it up NOT after as it'll be too late then. It rarely happens that people give up power & influence voluntarily.