"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 @Angle
Not sure if it's different in the UK, but our core set of issues are that we can be exploited out of any benefit - we need more rights and protections first, then UBI could help.
Rent keeps going up, companies like Uber/Deliveroo can employee minimum wage 'contractors' without giving them a safe number of hours to live on, or fine them for missing shifts, food/grocery price is unstable 'cos Brexit, NHS waiting might soon mean you need private care.
We need rent caps & job rights. UBI stops working when it just gets eaten into by other companies'/landlords' actions.
@edensaesthetic @Angle One of the things though that show UBI is critical is the fact that most of the job losses arent from outsourcing, they are from automation. Those jobs are just vanishing.
@edensaesthetic @Laurelai @Angle I support UBI but the danger across *all* of Europe (UK+mainland) is it could just as easily be used to "disrupt" existing public sector services- not just things that are 100% free at source but part subsidised (a lot of stuff like public transport, community centres, education services etc is like this), ultra-capitalists will likely argue for all these to be defunded..
@edensaesthetic @Angle Yes all of those things are needed too. Capitalism is horrible. As for job rights, jobs are going away and they are never coming back and we need to address that.