Elon Musk proposes universal basic income, but there's a hidden dark side nobody thinks about

Elon Musk calls for universal basic income.

Another day brings another warning from someone in the know that the robots are coming to steal your jobs. What will people do when all labor is performed by robots? How will people support themselves and feed their families? Elon Musk proposed universal basic income.

LOS ANGELES, CA (California Network) - During a news conference to discuss Space X, Elon Musk went off topic to talk about robots and autonomous vehicles and more. Musk repeated the warning that in the coming years robots will take jobs and those losses will be permanent.

The idea is popular, makes sense, and it is supported by the data.

Historically, revolutions in industry have created new sectors for humans to work. The arrival of the steam engine created the railroad at the same time it was taking jobs away in factories. People merely transitioned from one job to another.

This time it's different. Robots will be able to fix robots. Robots will make robots and more. The entire point of the fourth industrial revolution will be to make human labor obsolete. The data already shows that more jobs are being lost to automation than are being created.

Eventually, robots will become human-like in their abilities and interactions as the technology steadily improves.

At some point in the now foreseeable future, the need for human labor will end. What will we do with all the people on Earth when there is nothing for them to do except consume resources and reproduce?

Elon Musk has an answer, universal basic income.

Universal basic income is the idea of giving each person a check intended to cover the basic costs of living. The idea is that people will have their basic needs guaranteed. Once their basic needs are met, what they choose to do afterwards is up to them. People will have a lot more leisure time and could spend their time at play. Others may invent work for themselves by pioneering new inventions. An untold era of creativity could happen.

But there is a dark side to this possibility. Universal basic income will presumably be paid by the wealthy who will be heavily taxed to support the billions of people who only consume, and never produce. There will be a movement to reduce their population.

Measures to reduce population include widespread contraception use, the encouragement of homosexuality, the development of sex robots, and the insistence that reproduction is a privilege, not a right. Millions, possibly billions could be forced to undergo sterilization or forced abortions. Other, more sinister schemes could see the outbreak of virulent diseases, warfare, or mass starvation. When plotted deliberately by governments, these tactics are collectively referred to as "democide."

The near future may be a nice place if robots remove the drudgery from life and billionaires agree to pay a universal basic income, but eventually something will be done with our growing population because it will be considered a liability to those who control the wealth.

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