WHich is scary. All we can say for America is that we are fucked. The crossroads for us to act will have passed long before we ever collectively get our asses together for real and vote, let alone act for our interests on a national and global level.
Hell, its coming up very soon.
True, but I imagine it is because those who get it at present - those at least
involved in an aspect of status to talk about it - are high-level intellectuals.
The change we need here happens when it is all encompassing, not left to economists at Citi Group or machine learners or Stephen Hawking. And I unfortunately think it will only play a mainstream role when we see the disruption of the social ideas to life - one must have a job, you are worth what you work - seen as irrelevant and ultimately superseded by technology.
Horses didn't get new jobs when cars came, so to assume everyone displaced can just get up and do something else in a society with very little safety nets as is can only be justified as sadism. That reality will first have to be acknowledged from stem to stern before we can even get close to acting on it, even if those looking at it from that higher-level perspective very adamantly argue this is where we're going, and this is what needs to be done in an age of transitioning.
The biggest obstacle is thought. Regressives who argue against the climate are, for lack of a better word, doomed to reason with on this issue. It very easily uproots their conditioned values of work, labor, worthiness, and what constitutes being a "parasite." Our obstacle, as it usually is when trying to make prosperity for ourselves and others, is usually found as the enemy of reason. America in particular has a whole culture that emphasizes reason as secondary. The love of learning is a fluke today; you learn now to get a job or career, for that's all that matters. Shit like this is abound.
Base income is like one of the furthest left things you can do. While I agree this article might be overblown on someways, especially economically, just because the nation doesn't support the most extreme proposals doesn't mean it is not moving left on other issues.
I never once said America is not moving left. They are not moving left economically, and that is plain as day. In an age where developed worlds are at least talking about it on a main stage, America is profoundly absent. Nobody in the political world dares even mention the trends here.
Canada, Finland, and Switzerland are perhaps the leaders in this discussion. Is America even at the
table? No, only outliers to the political spectrum dare talk about it. No American think tanks say we need it, even if a bastion of intellectualism in the UK like the RSA says it should be a social goal of society to do such a thing.
