David L. Babcock <olb...@gmail.com> wrote: What average family? Our household (2 people) gets $3000/month and we are > on the edge of disaster! >
The plans we are discussing are not intended to provide enough for a person to live on without any other source of income. Not in the initial phase in the present day. The idea is to keep a person from starving and keep a roof over their head. The other idea is keep consumer demand high enough to preserve capitalism for several more decades. Decades later, or a century later, when nearly all human labor ceases, this system will evolve beyond capitalism into one where everyone gets a generous allowance and can live like today's upper-middle class person on the allowance alone, without employment. The idea is that when robots can supply all material goods in the future, people should not have to work. At present, robots cannot do that. But they are beginning to, so we need to begin to adjust the economy to deal with that fact. For the present day, this would be a hybrid system such as the one described by Charles Murray: http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/-in-our-hands_105549266790.pdf - Jed
