I suspect this may become necessary anyway since more and more workers will eventually be replaced by automation, robots, an A.I. I wouldn’t be surprised if the teaching profession is eventually taken over by A.I.

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WilliamFleming Level 6 I wonder if a lifetime subsistence dividend for every citizen could be implemented. It would be funded by a massive public trust fund invested in stocks and bonds. Every social program could be eliminated along with taxes and public debt.It’s not all that far-fetched—Alaska has its permanent fund. Canada funds pensions that way. Norway has something like that.From a national perspective, having to do work is a liability. As time goes by there’ll be more robots and less need for labor, but the bounty from those robots will need to […]

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