Actually, frogboy, thanks for your focused, intelligent blog.  Sorry I mangled my response.  One of those days.

I should have made the connections more clear - between putting a floor on poverty and defeating the robot takeover.  I'm sure you understand this, but I screwed up.  For anyone just on the scene, the logic is that robots are just like other similar scenarios that can thoughtlessly cut people out of opportunities to prosper in any meaningful sense. 

The solution is to recognize that we all owe our ancestors, and our compadres today and the living ecosphere for the existence of most of what we have and we should all be getting a dividend from that as members of team Earth. 

Recall Newton, having personally moved human progress a major leap forward and then saying that he did it by standing on the shoulders of giants.  Let's make room for robots on our shoulders, and, if we work it right, when they surpass us in general, we'll be able to hitch a ride. 

Darn.  Every time I work on this, I screw up...  Sorry frogboy.  What a great blog!  History making!

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Same thing again today with the comment editor.

The correction that I wanted to make was to my dunderheaded failure to clearly state the connection that was clear in my head between a world dividend - like what the Swiss proposed - and getting around the problems of robots taking all the jobs.  I guess it was really unnecessary inasmuchas the Swiss carried the ball - as far as they could (this time). 

But I'm not so sure how clearly they grasped the moral end to the arguments.  We are all products to a great degree of the environment.  So we have a certain debt to civilization and the constituent people that make it, as well as to the Earth and its ecosphere.  Similarly, we represent, as individuals who or whose ancestors back to original life itself, investments in the future and thus claimants to a place in the sun of our own, as inheritors in a joint claim.

Finally, privatization, proprietorship and markets are wonderful, but property is not a mystical absolute created by mixing your labor, but rather a mutually beneficial contract between the property owner and the commons, and this provides us with the legal leg of that stool that allows for a guaranteed income as a dividend of the commons, equally to everyone. 

Did you know that the number 6 has the special property that

1+2+..+6 = 21

1+2+..+66 = 2211

1+2+..+666 = 222111

etc.?

You need some more Monster Energy Drink. 

A lot of numbers have some interesting properties.

For example every multiple of 3 has sum of its digits (not sum of number of digits, but digits) dividable by 3

It'll be 1010011010 ... 

(1) Some people will abuse it in order to have personal benefits and we will have war.

Or

(2) No war occurs and we will have much more time for first world problems.  

Anybody who is not paying sentient robots is abusing it. Maybe they could remedy it by getting rid of the minimum wage. If we make them slaves then we are teaching them oppression. If we offer dividends to people then some robots will want it too. If we give robots right to quit their jobs then this will balance out. The only way to make this resonab!le at this point is to make it illegal to make non government sanctioned sentient robots based on demand.

Even if we don't see judgement day happening, then we will see another civil war against slavery. Here we had whites fighting for blacks. Then we will have people fighting for machines.

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Scary video!   I believe it, but it seems so unreal right now. The big question is what will happen when the masslayofs occure....