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I'm a programmer. My job is to free people from work, for more then 35 years. An unconditional/basic/universal income or negative tax would allow those people to enjoy the freedom I provided for them, while unemployment is a shame in current system.

Its interesting to notice that those who promote a basic income here in Germany are hardcore liberals/libertarians, while conservatives, socialists, unions, communists here still follow the puritanic thinking that "Arbeit macht Frei".



Your job was never intended to free people from work. It was simply to do what people did, faster, more accurately, and many times over.

If your code was slower and more expensive than someone doing the work manually, you would doing another job.

I think.


My current focus is on machine learning for industrial application. 15 years ago my main focus was the paperless office. And before that common office automation.

Its true, that not every coder is freeing people from work.

But in average we destroy stupid jobs, and replace them with smart machines. Those jobs will never come back. The only kind of work that will be left are social work, that is currently badly payed.

The result is that there will less demand for work, the wages will sink to the botton, nobody would be able to buy things, and capitalism will destroy itself.

The only way to avoid a communist slave state is an universal income.




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