and how Automation is gonna steal your job even if you're a doctor lawyer

bartender chef gymnast service dog hooker comedian

it won't be long until I'm replaced in here and this is my bedroom

it's what Andrew yang calls a tsunami of unemployment and he's running for

president with a plan to deal with it if you've heard anything about me in my

campaign you've heard something like this there's an Asian man running for

president who wants to give everyone $1,000 on month. hey you had me at Asian

man but Wow a thousand bucks a month that's enough to buy health insurance

plus $500 left over to definitely not buy drugs with this is Knee Of The Curve

welcome to knee of the curve I'm Emmett Short and if you don't know this is a show about

the topics leading us to the technological singularity there's a

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I know a lot of you are waiting for the sex robot episode but I'm not gonna put

that up until I do rigorous research and those creepy ass dolls are not cheap and

I'm not gonna get one secondhand plus ubi is a core issue when it comes to sex

pots house an honest lady of the night supposed to pay the bills when robot

blowjob machines are popping up all over London what what that that those are

urinals if those are urinals then how come when I was in one I had a

mind-blowing never mind moving on let's get into it jobs those

things robots keep stealing from America's Mexicans I'm kidding

Mexicans don't want these jobs more than 90% of our hired farm workers come from

Mexico but we're seeing a hundred fifty thousand fewer farm workers each year

young peope growing up in rural Mexico are getting

more education that gives them ticket to higher paying jobs that demand more

Skills and provide them with more stable employment the alternative is to find

new ways of growing these crops with fewer workers so it's all about

technology yeah turns out nobody wants to stand in the Sun 14 hours a day

picking strawberries and if you do you've taken this whole strawberries or

my favorite food thing way too far strawberries are for breakfast or

dessert or sex stuff but that's it anyway

robots are taking our jobs the five most common jobs in the United States right

now are administrative and clerical work retail and sales food service and food

prep truck driving and transportation and manufacturing those five jobs

comprise about half of all American jobs over the next number of months AI is

going to become industry indistinguishable from a person yeah

like the new Google answering service yeah that comes with the pixel phone so

it's amazing Google assistant is getting spooky good

Google's Gmail now finishes your sentences stealing jobs from millions of

annoying spouses if you really knew me that well you'd know I like to finish my

own don't say thoughts I say thoughts now historically people that feared

machines would put everyone out of work have been called Luddites which is a

term from the 1800s for the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery

that was threatening their jobs I think it was cotton gins or looms but it got

pretty violent with a lot of people dying and one unsympathetic factory

owner William horse fall getting his balls shot off

yeah because of looms how many of you have noticed doors closing where you

live I know you're from all over the country and why are those stores closing

one word answer Amazon Amazon soaking up 20 billion dollars in business every

single year how much are they paying in taxes zero

hey Bezos if I were you I'd start worrying about my balls we automated

away four million manufacturing jobs in Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania Wisconsin and

my friends and Technology know we're about to do the same thing to millions

of retail jobs call center jobs fast-food jobs

truck driving jobs and on and on but ultimately Luddites have always been

wrong every time machines take over an industry new and often

better jobs have been created in fact AI and robotics are already creating new

jobs there is a cafe in Tokyo where the waiters are actually robots controlled

by paraplegic people using eye movements you got to hand it to technology these

people had their spines crushed technology found a way to crush their

souls yeah thanks for the waiter gig nobody thought of inventing an eye

control drafting board so she can get back to being a fucking architect no

thanks for the nine-hour shift serving coffee to the mobile elite for minimum

wage really fills the void from her last job designing Tokyo's Olympic Stadium

great work okay so that one's not great but if hitch history repeats itself more

and better jobs will follow why would this time be any different the

Industrial Revolution which people generally refer to and say hey we've

been through this before Bain and McKinsey project that this time

is going to be three to four times faster and larger than that according to

economic theory if you were to automate away 4 million manufacturing jobs which

we did those workers would move get retrained rescaled find new higher

productivity jobs and all would be well but when I dug into the numbers it turns

out that almost half of those workers left the workforce and never worked

again and of that group about half filed for disability and then you saw a surge

in substance abuse and drug overdoses and suicides that's actually a much

better sign of what's gonna happen when the three and a half million truckers

and the two and a half million call center worker isn't the over ten million

retail workers suffer from the same sort of displacement right the scale of job

displacement across multiple industries is going to be bigger than anything

that's happened in the past by orders of magnitude

enter ubi universal basic income or what andrew yang has rebranded the freedom

dividend universal basic income money for nothing and chicks for free that's

not what it is ubi which the bowel disease also not what it is we need to

have everyone share in all of the gains from this progress and innovation my

flagship proposal of freedom dividend would put $1,000 a month into the hands

of every American so that if your mall closes or your job gets blasted away you

at least have $12,000 year that helps take the pressure off

and helps you transition in a better better direction

well that sounds dope but the fear is that with no jobs available and people

getting free money everyone will start living pointless unproductive

meaningless lives basically the whole country will turn into Housewives of

Beverly Hills your D linking income from actually earning a living when you work

that you get more out of it than money you get self-esteem just incentivized

people to be more or less industrious I would say are you a self-made success

story well are you robbing other people their ability to make be a self-made

success story wait so robots are coming for our jobs

and universal basic income is coming for our meaning but what about the vast

majority of people who hate their jobs does that mean they hate meaning or do

some jobs offer people a lot more meaning than others or maybe the more

money you make the more options you have to create meaningful things in your life

like support a family or pursue those kinds of jobs people don't hate

what are those jobs called oh yeah careers Chris Rock said it best now the

people in the audience with careers need to learn to shut the fuck up when you

around people with jobs don't let your happiness make somebody

sad yeah it turns out people don't really like jobs how did all these

people with careers not see that people like Bernie Sanders

I believe in a jobs guarantee why is it Federal jobs guaranteed better than a

universal basic that what a simple reason I think most people want to work

and I believe under a Sanders administration what we would do is

create those jobs you couldn't even call it a federal career guarantee no you're

gonna get a government job and you're gonna work hard you're gonna love it

because it gives you meaning okay what kind of job am I gonna get you got an

infrastructure which is crumbling we can put millions of people to work doing

that you want me to be a construction worker hey Bernie fuck you we're talking

half of all jobs in America gone in the next two decades and you want to create

a huge government bureaucracy to manage everybody's job I think in practice it

would be somewhere between highly and proud

to call and dystopian because if you've ever employed lots and lots of people

you have to put a bureaucracy in place to employ them and monitor them and then

if they don't like their job or don't like their boss or aren't doing a good

job and they're dependent upon that job for their very survival and you're

guaranteeing them that job then what do you do

and that to me is the path we must avoid it might be well intended but we might

as well just give everyone gray overalls while we're at it so what will people do

if it's not mandatory government jobs which let's hope that doesn't happen

Bernie you psychopath what do you bi opponents think people are gonna do when

the tsunami of unemployment hits just calmly adjust the Industrial Revolution

at the turn of the century included mass riots that killed dozens of Americans

and caused billions of dollars worth of damage

we now have Labor Day as a national holiday because of those riots we

implemented Universal High School in 1911 and part as a response to these

problems so even if you just rely upon history you would expect a lot of

violence and tumult and conflict Luddites are gonna wreck shit it's a

recurring theme but what you may not realize about those original Luddites is

they weren't angry with the machines if technology was gonna be used in a way to

benefit at everyone they were happy with it they saw this really not as a

technological fight but an economic fight when the Luddite started breaking

machines it was because they had lost their attempt to mitigate the way that

economic change would happen yeah people don't have a problem with the machines

doing tasks we don't want to do we love that the problem is with the economic

upheaval that comes along with the transition the choice we have to make is

who's in control of our economic future who do you think is most capable of

creating the new more fulfilling and higher paying jobs of the future the

government andrew yang says you are do we want to work for ourselves or do we

want to work for the government and and if this is the the choice we have if

this is the choice we have it's not about what would serve our government

it's what would serve ourselves we are the owners and shareholders of the

society it's our wealth and we should be able to decide what we want to do with

it opponents say the big problem to doing

UVI is people are going to be too lazy to do anything so

nothing will happen seems like the choices between nothing happening or

people getting their balls shot off if I was a software engineer my balls would

be donating to Andrew Yang's campaign and guess what here are the top five

occupations of donors to the yin-yang software engineers number one so these

are the people that are closest to the action when I talk to software engineers

they're like oh yeah it's real because they know what's going on the smartest

of them have been talking about ubi for years I think ultimately we will have to

have some kind of universal basic income I don't think we're gonna have a choice

basic minimum earnings for everybody so that every there's nobody that is having

to sleep on the street we should explore ideas like universal basic income to

make sure that everyone has a cushion to try new ideas these are the guys making

the machines I say we trust their self-interest and let them give us money

it's like pre-emptive reverse extortion it's like if a small business went to

the mob and was like hey can we pay you some money to protect us from you it's

brilliant and it's worth taking a moment to reflect on why this is all happening

right now and it's in the name of the show Denis the curve the line on the

graph is the rate of technological advancement it's growing exponentially

and the point of most extreme change is the knee of the curve humanity is

getting very close and things are going to change faster than they've ever

changed before that's why we need to react to this problem in a way we've

never tried before now look I don't know if universal basic income is gonna fix

all the problems of this job loss tsunami but after you understand the

situation and listen to all the other plans

it absolutely seems like the least crazy if you'd like me to have a basic income

I'm only $1,000 a month away from earning a thousand dollars a month on

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