"Learn how to code" is the new "if you just get a degree you will have a good job"
If everyone takes that advice like everyone took the college advice you will have a shitload of coders and not enough jobs
That will force the wages of coders down to the point you will be begging for microsoft to take your code for free just to have your name out there.
Its what happened to writing and its part of why its hard to get a paid gig, too many writers willing to work for free.
So "learn how to code" is bad advice, Jobs are going away and they are never coming back we need to address this.
We need a universal dividend on all of the automated labor on earth paid out to all of its citizens
@Laurelai Eh... I'm not really sold on basic income. My concern is thats it's a bandaid, on a problem where we need much more than just a band-aid. Like, suppose we pass basic income. And it's good enough to work for everyone. What then?
Well, then we get a decade or so where people think the problem's solved, while wealth and power continue to accumulate into ever fewer hands, until the owners of said wealth and power decide they really don't need the rest of us anymore. What then? :/
@Angle I honestly think thats bad logic because people are starving and dying of shit they dont need to be right now, and its much harder to organize for a revolutionary movement when your comrades are starving sick and disconnected.
@Laurelai Hmm, thats a good point. Band aids and temporary solutions do have their place. I just don't want people to go thinking this is all that needs to be done, when it really isn't. :/
@cute_weeds @Laurelai Another point I've seen made is that there are too many ways to bleed money out of people - raising rents, raising prices, etc, etc. We might be better off just offering free services - free food, free transportation, etc? :/
@Angle @cute_weeds We can do that. But for now stabilizing the situation so we dont tailspin into a dictatorship powered by robot labor is kind of important.
@Laurelai @cute_weeds Mmm, I agree - but I'm not certain that UBI /is/ that stabilization. It might end up being just another piece of the problem. I guess ultimately my position is "This is a very complicated and very difficult problem and it won't be easily solved, and we need to think very hard about it, not just push the first solution we find."