The Great Reset

[Lord Percy]

The 'great reset' theory says that something needs to be done about the rise of A.I. and the power of big data. There is an obvious growing reality where A.I. takes over so many jobs that society is left with a new 'useless class' of people who simply aren't required because robots can do it for them. The 'useless class' will require a universal basic income.

Someone I know insisted I watch this short documentary.

https://vimeo.com/504878361/40c57eeafb

They wanted me to see the underlying big-picture conspiracy that the UK government is enacting, as part of the World Economic Forum's 'Great Reset' and the introduction of the 4th industrial revolution (the advent of A.I. and big data). Conspiracy theorists say the UK's appalling covid response has been deliberate, in order to crush businesses and create a new society where a handful of tech/corporate giants hold the power, with new sweeping control enabled via mass surveillance, big data and even human microchipping.

Apparently the documentary highlights lots of scary tyrannical things. Personally I thought it was fascinating and welcome the change. It's not like things have been getting any better for the last decade or two, so obviously something needs to happen. Maybe this is it? Pushing aside the conspiracy angle, it looks like a vision for a new world where tech is embraced and managed for good. There is even the concept of a 'robot tax', where companies must pay tax for the work their robots do, since those robots generate income just like the humans they are replacing (Amazon is the best example of this). Could we finally be approaching the future that was envisioned almost a century ago, where technology frees us from prior wage slavery?

Interestingly, Boris Johnson's 'Build Back Better' slogan from a few months ago was in fact a slogan taken from the WEF great reset event, and was used also by Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau, among others. So clearly there is some truth, at least to the fact that this 'great reset' idea exists, and that world leaders have it in their minds in some way.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ejk0gnaWAAAlSRW.jpg

[Polarbear]

Sorry that article is as conspiratorial theory as anything else I have seen done by loonies. Cherry pick what you want, ignore what you don't.

As far as the great reset and universal income.

Cheap labour is cheap labour. End of.

Whatever is cheapest and wherever it is cheapest thats where companies will go. If robots are cheaper they will use them. If universal credit forces companies to pay 'robot' tax in UK, they'll move their factory to somewhere that doesn't have 'robot' tax. The wonder of globalisation.

In my industry i saw the worst of globalisation. In the 70's it was all British officers and crew on British flag ships (maybe up to 50 crew on a tanker). By the end of the 80's it was smaller crews. Ratings were from Hong Kong and India (cheaper). When I left the sea non of our ships were British flag. Officers and crew were from the cheapest source that had international recognition and the total crew on an oil tanker was between 15 and 18. There are now hardly any British seafarers and ships.

Labour costs are the biggest outgoing and the easiest to cut.

Paying our population £10000 universal credit would cost £670,000,000,000 ish. It isn't going to happen unless we get rid of the social state completely (saving a fortune) and say, that's your lot. If you spend it all, tough shit, you starve.

I can see that going down well with the great unwashed.
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[Jmoan]

Robot tax? Does this mean we can send Bill Gates a massive back dated tax bill on the jobs his products removed?

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

The very idea that a few wealthy elite are able to push buttons and engineer such widespread change is hokum. The world is chaotic; that’s all you need to know.

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[Lord Percy]

[Lord Percy]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Are Amazon robots “AI” in the 21st Century sense? Aren’t they just running on tracks to bring inventory items to the human workforce which has the ability to actually pack and dispatch?

It’s fair to say governments may be idly considering what they might have to do if AI puts us all out of work, but the OP implies they’re engineering it. I don’t agree.

Finland trialled universal basic income and it failed (though critics say the trial was flawed).

[Polarbear]

But that is basically what this country is becoming anyway - workers who work in service industries be it waiter, teacher, nurses, train drivers etc. They are all service industries.

If you are waiting for universal income, don't hold your breath.Where are we going to pay for that when a large swathe of the population isn't earning enough to pay tax or NI but still expect mollycoddling from birth to the grave.
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[hellkat]

As long as they know how to use the three shells.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Lord Percy]

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[pepperami]

Who fixes all the broken robots?
Will we become the robot doctors or their slaves?
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I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now!

[Lord Percy]

The robot-fixer robots, of course!

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