"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. :/

@Angle @Laurelai In all seriousness, while I'm 100% for universal basic income, I know it will be attacked by capitalists and only work if it's one step in a continuing program pushing equality forward.

@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 @Laurelai Yeah, it's temporary relief that would be undermined by the wealthy.

Hey, I'd make a terrible leader, but I'd be glad if a UBI gave people some breathing room and pushed attitudes to the left. Then again, I was also only half kidding about the richeating.

@cute_weeds @Laurelai But would it? What if all it does is expend a whole lot of political capital and give people another reason to go about "See! Socialism doesn't work!"

@Angle @cute_weeds Because it will work. Its worked where its been tried, in fact when they find out how well it works capitalists try to kill trials of it. All you need to do is get it enacted and people will see with their own eyes how well it works.