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		morgante on Oct 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Buy payphones and retire > If everyone receives a sufficient basic income, who will fix their toilets or clean their yachts? Obviously in this scenario we have robots that fix toilets and clean yachts. That's not even farfetched.

ElFitz on Oct 29, 2024 [–]

> If the answer is ’no one’, then I’m afraid we’ll need significant advances in automation and robotics […]

I would also add that many activities would seem much simpler to automate, even today. Such as cobalt mining. And yet, we can’t seem to be bothered.

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