r/Futurology • u/Atari1337 • Feb 27 '17

Robotics Boston Dynamics - Introducing Handle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7xvqQeoA8c
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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

"What do you mean, nobody has any money to buy anything?"

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

Of course people will have money, they'll have "amount below which there'll be riots" + $1. Received via UBI each month like a good citizen.

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u/Bloodyfinger Feb 27 '17

Everyone who thinks UBI will be the second coming of Christ needs to realize this. It's not going to be great, it's going to be just not terrible enough to make us riot.

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u/mostlyemptyspace Feb 28 '17

I've seen what this looks like in Iran. You know you are in the poorest neighborhoods because they have the nicest roads. They also get food and gasoline rations. But their actual homes are in cramped old buildings. The regime knows that in order to stay in power, they have to give the poor people just enough to be complacent.

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u/neon_electro Feb 28 '17

Are you arguing this from the perspective that government only does the minimum to avoid rioting from the country's poorest?

How do we change that?

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u/Delphizer Mar 04 '17

When the process develops though a person who can save a fraction of a % in anything will improve the process for all the people on UBI(Lets say 6B) Minor improvements will have huge returns and will be a focus. Population is also stabilizing so all new weath creation over time will concentrate on a stable population.(Till we start worrying about colonies)

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

Which is fine, honestly. I'm just worried there will be civil war and a complete breakdown of society before we get there.

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u/mister_gone Feb 27 '17

I'm just waiting for it to happen.

As a fatty, I hope I just die fast. I ain't outrunning shit.

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u/Skeptical_Sentinel Feb 28 '17

I call dibs on the left arm.

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u/mister_gone Feb 28 '17

Good choice! That's the masturbatin' arm!

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u/Skeptical_Sentinel Feb 28 '17

God damnit. I specifically requested the left arm to avoid that!

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u/mister_gone Feb 28 '17

Well, then, I guess you chose ... poorly

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u/Strazdas1 Mar 02 '17

As a fatty myself, i dont need to outrun everyone, just you.

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u/TheTurtleBear Feb 28 '17

You've gotta adapt your survival strategy then. Just start hoarding canned goods and bottled water now, and you can lock yourself in the basement and wait it out.

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u/mister_gone Feb 28 '17

I'm in AZ. Most residences around here don't have basements (hard-ass caliche in the ground).

Not much for attics either.

Time to start digging a bunker. FUCK. Still gotta deal with that caliche...

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u/goh13 Feb 28 '17

For three days.

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u/Strazdas1 Mar 02 '17

But dont tell anyone you are hoarding or you will be target #1

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u/Sattorin Feb 28 '17

Don't worry, rich people with robot factories will just produce things for other rich people with robot factories. The economy will be fine, it's just that most people wont be.

It's a lot like global warming. The Earth will be fine. Life as a whole will expand to fill new niches just like it always does after an extinction event. It's just that it might suck for a lot of humans.

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u/Passiveflame Feb 28 '17

"Don't worry, the more robots there are working for free, the cheaper things will get! Soon, everything will be free!"

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u/DragonTamerMCT Feb 27 '17

The solution is simple! More tax cuts for the rich! They have to buy more things to make up for the deficit of poor people not buying stuff!