If somebody else has to work so you can eat without working, thats theft and your victims will try to kill you to stop you taking the products of their labor.
If somebody else has to work so you can eat without working, thats theft and your victims will try to kill you to stop you taking the products of their labor.
Imagine, say, a world where clouds of von Neumann self-replicating builder robots fly around and plant seeds, tend trees, harvest, and deliver food. They also charge and repair and modify themselves, take material from mined asteroids, and are so plentiful that they may respond to every nonviolent human whim.
That world may have problems (which I don't care to discuss, I am just throwing out a possibility), and it's nowhere near reality. Not close. But I think such a pie-in-the-sky scenario is the one under discussion, where assumptions like 'nobody will feed you voluntarily' are not as bedrock as they are for us.
Once we have that hypothetical robot slave army feeding everyone of us, the discussion would be over by itself because there would be nothing left to discuss. Everyone would have all he needs and that would be it.
The only reason we do have the discussion already now, long before the star-trekian replicator utopia has been realized is because a lot of people are so impatient to stop working, that they want to engineer a system where not robots, but _other people_ are working for them, of course involuntarily.
Nobody pays taxes voluntarily either, yet we collect them and use them to pay for services everybody uses. I see absolutely no reason why we couldn't do the same thing for all of people's basic needs.
Like communism, basic income (which is just another word for communism) is outright slavery, where person A is being forced to involuntarily work to feed person B who doesnt want to work.
Wanting to work vs not wanting to work is not even a relevant question. Everyone wants to feel useful. Not everyone has a job. Whether someone gets a job or not depends on market forces, not just desire or motivation.
Like communism, basic income (which is just another word for communism) is outright slavery
Machines can not be slaves. When machines produce everything we need it is unconscionable to allow some people to starve while others grow rich and fat with profit.