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by alex_smart 1827 days ago
> It's probably not as important in places where it's still cheaper to hire humans than it is to install a robot in most cases.

Can you clarify what you meant by this? To me it seemed that you are implying that somehow the poor in third world countries are better off than the poor in first world countries because they still have their 2$ a day jobs.
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mkr-hn 1827 days ago
Nope. Not saying anything of the sort. Your read is qualitative.

My comment was quantitative, strongly implied by the math. If I were going to make a qualitative statement, I would say life sucks for almost everyone on this godawful planet in different ways. You're trying to parse out a judgement of those relative conditions in me saying UBI might not be a universal solution to the hell-sphere theory of life on Earth. I don't know why.

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alex_smart 1827 days ago
Like I said, my objection was based on the way you had phrased that last sentence in your comment.

> It's probably not as important in places where it's still cheaper to hire humans than it is to install a robot in most cases.

The reason universal basic income does not work in India is not because people here still have their $3/day jobs. It doesn't work because there is simply not enough wealth here to restribute, so the problem here is still one of creation of wealth.

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