Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Universal income

In Switzerland, of all places, there was a vote recently -- negative -- for a bill that would have promised every man, woman, and child money. That's called universal income, a reaction to the eventuality that robots will replace all manual or intellectual labor by people. Why is house exchanger interested? Because he has never visited Switzerland and wants to? No, although that is true. It's because he experiences the sharing economy every day. In house exchange. It will become the new economy. And he is always amazed how big it is; how many people every day join. Yes. And universal income is the ultimate example of the sharing economy. Er, the new economy. It used to be called socialism or communism. Hated terms. But now: sharing with robots. Letting them do what they do best: work. And let people do what they do best: creatively entertain each other.

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