[Excluding the mistakes I made in reading my monitor, this is the text of the Video I recorded on December 19th, 2018]
Sometimes, without having to be very bright, one
simply thinks of a logical connection out there that one hasn’t already read
about some place or heard about on YouTube. What am I talking about? Well, you see, I had been thinking a lot
lately about the necessity for a program that would give everybody Universal
Free Income, because it is inevitable that most working and salaried people
will lose their jobs and careers to Robotics and other Artificial Intelligence
Information and Analyses Technologies.
So, there I was scratching my head over it and along
the way up popped a picture in my mind’s eye of a World full of people sitting
at home waiting for their Free Money Check to arrive in the mail (well, yes, it
would be electronic transfer, but my imagination is still largely populated
with imagery from the 20th Century… if not before, … you know, I still use metaphors that refer to ‘horses’…
remember horses, anyone? Beautiful animals, and their poop doesn’t stink… more
than you can say for people, right?).
Well, back to
substance -- there I was, seeing all of these people sitting at home when it
occurred to me, that this would be the end of Morning and Evening Rush Hours. Then I realized that people would no longer
need cars explicitly to get to Work. You know, anybody who has ever held a job KNOWS
that being chronically late is perhaps the number one reason why people are
sacked (or if the bosses hate you and need an excuse, then popping in late one
day would be all the documentation they need to get HR to issue you a Card
Board Box, a Pink Slip, two paychecks and a Road Map).
So, anyway, effectively the working public was
forced by a kind of institutional duress into shelling out money for cars… new
and reliable cars.
But given a
Universal Free Income, nobody would have to report to Work, and without that ‘gun’
of duress being held up to our heads, well, we could all get around with less
reliable public transportation for whatever screwing around we still wanted to
do (not that it is necessary that public transportation be unreliable, but that
is what working people fear… nobody wants to get fired for the bus driver
screwing up and being late. They want to
get fired for their own screwing up and being late). But,
yes, when it comes to just getting about town for ordinary appointments and
shopping, then certainly the requirement to be so precisely on time will no
longer carry the same pitch of anxiety as it does now under this present Regime
of Capitalist Tyranny. So, Public Transportation scheduling could afford
to be a bit blurry without it being the worst problem Humanity will face in battling
for the Survival of the Planet and for the Establishment of a the first True
Civilization in Human History. Also, one of the greatest lessons learned in
the 20th Century is that Nations can pay far too high a price to “have
the trains run on time” (you know, the stated justification for the inception of
European Fascism prior to The Great War Part Two. )
Well, let me
sum all of this up: what this all comes
down to is that IF we are all replaced by Robots, and IF we are all put out to
pasture with Universal Free Income, THEN two of the largest causes for Carbon
Emissions will be squashed – all that Commuter Driving, and then all that
Manufacturing Process that goes into making commuter cars.
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