Appearing at the SXSW conference Saturday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said people should be excited by the prospect of robots taking their jobs because it will afford them more time to pursue their creative passions.
Ocasio-Cortez speculated fears over automation stem from a lack of financial safety net and economic uncertainty. “We should not be haunted by the specter of being automated out of work,” the self-avowed democrat-socialist said, according to Fast Company. “We should not feel nervous about the tollbooth collector not having to collect tolls. We should be excited by that. But the reason we’re not excited about it is because we live in a society where if you don’t have a job, you are left to die.”
The freshman congresswoman floated a proposal by billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates to tax robots at 90 percent to make up workers’ lost income from automation. “Whether it’s a tax rate, whether it’s distributing wealth that’s created by automation – if we approach solutions to our systems and start entertaining ideas like that, then we should be excited about automation because of what it could potentially mean,” she said.
Ocasio-Cortez then mused that with adequate policies in place, introducing more robots into the workforce could allow society more time to dabble in art and science, and actually increase the pace of innovation, freeing up “more time enjoying the world we live in.”
“Not all creativity needs to be bonded by wage,” she said to loud applause. MORE HERE
I thought Obummer Care was the cure for job lock.
This is because she has never had anything more than participation trophies in her life – she has never experienced the satisfaction of knowing you did a good job. Life and living it are not a freebie although she would have you believe she can make it so via her Communist policies
Anyone stupid enough to not see that taxing automation at ninety percent will kill it outright?
The dream dies hard.
IDIOCRACY babble.
Don’t hit her too hard. She got handed the script, like, at the last minute. And she’s too stupid to remember Obama blaming unemployment on ATMs.
Fuck her. Check out Rick Santelli, The Chicago Tea Party.
“How many of you want to pay for your neighbor’s lawn.”
The start of the Tea Party Movement.
Funemployment.
It’s already been done, Sandy.
This is Staight Outa Cupertino. (Head quarters of apple)
Several Bay Area Globalists/socialist have proposed this idea. A couple of them Indians. Not Sitting Bull. Birth place of the living wage. These rich people that own all the money will hand you out enough money to live in your massive apartment complex in your 400 sq ft home. They will make sure you get 3 squares. Free Health Insurance. Free education, which is a waste of time because there’s a robot or a computer already doing that job. There will be no discretionary spending so any type of Recreational business is now GONE. Putting many robots out of work. You will get just enough allowance to sign up for Amazon Prime and Netfliks. What else is there to do? And the services help keep the peace. If you knock your wife up the pregnancy will go full term while the authorities monitor that clump of cells to see if it’s got any cerebral potential. If not, they execute the baby and the parent too. Sounds pretty bitchen.
One question Bay Area genuinenesses.
Who the fuck is left to buy your product? And where will your income come from? Just asken.
Robots can’t think beyond how they are programed.
AOC can’t think at all.
I am excited about automation. When Mrs. UA is out with the other church ladies, I might need a sammich.
“Creative pursuits”… like how to live under an overpass and live off of food you find in dumpsters.
All Too Much
“Robots can’t think beyond how they are programed”
Not true. I’ve seen demos of pick and place Robots adapt.
Scared the shit out of me.
They like them that UBI stuff.
The way I figure it, is that they figure it is cheaper than outright slavery, where all this leads. Maybe not with chains, but with credit and social ratings and privileges and permissions. More narrative nonsense by them. But that is what it is- just a discrete form of slavery. And they’ve begun selling it.
We can build a robot to do what she does right now
Like Uncle Al says she is right to be excited about automation and what it can do for all of us. She just blows the premise with the rest of her comments.
She’s already cost her district 25,000 jobs when Amazon pulled out; I guess those people are “enjoying their free time” instead of heading off to work like Alexandria says …
If that story ain’t satire you can butter my ass and call me a biscuit. “Tax robots at 90%.” 90% of WHAT? Who thinks like that?
Cowgirl Bob
OK, the rest of you sort that shit out. I’m going to bed. Sounds like a gelding to me. I really don’t need this shit.
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“Robots can’t think beyond how they are programed”
Does she have any idea how close to home that hits???
We already have robots in Washington, they all just echo their parties script and vote as a unit. No free thinking there.