Stephen Hawking says that you Should Support Wealth Redistribution

[nanook12]

And I completely agree with him.

[hulkgor]

You didn't even get his name right...

[nanook12]

You didn't even get his name right...

Okay, fair enough that's not a small grammar mistake. I will fix it.

[Deleted]

Providing most basic neccesities like 4 meals/day and toiletries and possibility to choose limited amount of new clothes every year? I'm okay with that. I'd just preffer that those basic neccesities were basic enough to motivate people to do something productive in order to get better things.

[GennGreymane]

Is he a reliable authority on government and economics? He is a major player in physics and astronomy, but I dont know if that means he is qualified in other fields.

[Very Tired]

Is he a reliable authority on government and economics? He is a major player in physics and astronomy, but I dont know if that means he is qualified in other fields.

For all we know, the computer that talks for him grew a mind of it's own.

[Aori]

For all we know, the computer that talks for him grew a mind of it's own.

His computer has been in control for years now, Hawking is actually a husk.

[Clone]

Even if he isn't there would still come a time when machines have taken most jobs. At that point no one will have money to buy, and no one will have people to sell to.

[GennGreymane]

For all we know, the computer that talks for him grew a mind of it's own.

*removes glasses*
*hand is shaking*

Mother of god....

[Nyoken]

I agree....if I can stop working 300+ hours a month.....please

[Aviconus]

I agree as well. Tired of being one of the most overworked countries in the world......(and we still have a shit economy).

[Soeroah]

It's a logical enough standpoint, but it seems like one of those "everyone has to do it or no one can" things. If, say, Australia suddenly went Basic Income or whatever, and kept buying things from overseas, wouldn't the country's wealth drop quicker than it would under the current system?

Though I guess if machines are doing the work people do already anyway there'd still be things getting produced and sold to other countries so maybe it can be phased in.

That video ended really abruptly, though.

[Roostercogburn]

Is he a reliable authority on government and economics? He is a major player in physics and astronomy, but I dont know if that means he is qualified in other fields.

this. Love him to death, But I rather look at historians and economists take.

[Mormolyce]

Is he a reliable authority on government and economics?

Honestly if someone was an authority on government that would make me trust their opinion LESS.

[PC2]

The ideas are future and tech oriented, not anything within the next couple decades.

[breadisfunny]

You didn't even get his name right...

do you have something to contribute or are you just going to nitpick?
sadly this announcement by hawking will be ignored by the people who matter.

[Spiral Mage]

Sounds kinda like a Utopian concept a friend and invented. I asked for a world radically different from other contrasting worlds in the story, and so my friend and I ended up creating "paradise". Where people live to pursue their desires, money is dead and living is tiered.

To do something like this in the real world would likely never happen because one country can't swear off money. In this story, this world was all but destroyed and the near destruction of all human life, opened their eyes and they said: "Man, we have to change something. This nearly killed us all."

But as the guy in the video said, we SHOULD get to a point like that in the future but need some people to sit down and figure out how to do it and unfortunately, most of the people in a position to do that, are also extremely greedy and would never surrender their wealth for others.

In the story, the near end, caused people to abandon their greed and self-interest for the unity, for the whole.

[Roostercogburn]

Sounds kinda like a Utopian concept a friend and invented. I asked for a world radically different from other contrasting worlds in the story, and so my friend and I ended up creating "paradise". Where people live to pursue their desires, money is dead and living is tiered.

To do something like this in the real world would likely never happen because one country can't swear off money. In this story, this world was all but destroyed and the near destruction of all human life, opened their eyes and they said: "Man, we have to change something. This nearly killed us all."

But as the guy in the video said, we SHOULD get to a point like that in the future but need some people to sit down and figure out how to do it and unfortunately, most of the people in a position to do that, are also extremely greedy and would never surrender their wealth for others.

In the story, the near end, caused people to abandon their greed and self-interest for the unity, for the whole.

This can work, but NEVER for humans. We would have to shed all that makes us human and redefine ourselves.

Any idea of the self must be put aside and replaced with the whole. Hive minds would work.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Some people only see wealth in $$$$ and status, very few people see it as a resources that very much are tied into everything we do.

[Yvaelle]

Providing most basic neccesities like 4 meals/day and toiletries and possibility to choose limited amount of new clothes every year? I'm okay with that. I'd just preffer that those basic neccesities were basic enough to motivate people to do something productive in order to get better things.

Thought experiment time:

Basic Income exists, you can get food, toiletries, and a limited amount of new clothes each year. Would you choose to not to work, and just live off cheap food / toiletries / lowest rent / limited clothing?

Or would you choose to work, to gain a higher income, to have iPhones and cars and vacations and video games and stuff - in your life?