The power of automation is to destabilise the way in which the consumer, citizen and human being earns and obtains money. Money is needed to obtain and maintain the necessities of life. A nation needs human beings to be the arms and legs of the nation. Automation is not usually considered a problem but it is on- going and it is national and also pervasive across many industries. Automation is really a solution but it becomes a problem only if there are insufficient government funded national guarantees for the former employees, citizens, managers, secretaries, cashiers, assembly plant workers, department store workers and show room staff. Most imortantly, once automation has taken root in any manufacuring sector, it displaces the worker and citizen from his normal routine and source of income. The issue is that the choices are clear as well as the impact. The absense of a solution raises the spectre of genocide. Automation is not a crime. Building cars is not a crime but dumping waste from car plants into a river is a crime. As such, Automation renders a socal and economic impact that requires a life saving government solution or people will suffer life threatening circumstances. The failure to implement the solution is considered a decision; a decision that says someone is accountable. The worker or former worker who is really just a citizen does not intend to just die. A significant amount of national revenue is lost in the process as the workers no longer have a salary that generates an income tax. So, adjustments have to be made with a national federal solution to prevent a collison with the vacuum in the average consumer's buying power. We cannot turn back and deny automation's benefit to the industiral process. It saves howers of wasted material, it saves time and it may also save human life from being lost to injurious industiral processes. To enjoy automation and be happy with the labor saving benefits of the technology, we agree as citizens and corporate producers of machine made products to guarantee markets for the buying and selling of goods. This means guaranteeing that every citisen in the population receives a certain amount of money as paid for by the government. Every citizen receives it. There are different solutions on how to achieve the dollar cost. The most painless solution does not involve raised corporate taxes. It involves a reasonable sales tax at 30% or more. This means a $1.00 chocolate may cost with sales tax $1.50. But, with a Federal guaranteed minimum income support of about $30000.00 per year to respect the current cost of living in most of North America, then it is a reasonable sum to pay at 50 cents on the dollar and the impact is rather innocuous. Certain localities, states and cities may wish to make their own contributions to the
Federally funded support for reasons such as a higher cost of living due to a more harsh, cold climate. This may mean parts of the country where they endure a winter may render a yearly total minium income support of $60,000.00 per citizen. the point is that you need a population that provides a human resource so that you can raise an army and a navy. Maybe you hire everyone as a soldier and train them one or two days a week, providing a solid General education in the process and they will buy a vehicle.
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A population that does not work is the concern. However, a minimum guaranteed income support of only $30,000.00 may mean that work is desirable if you can find it in the reality of on-gong automation.
A population that works helps to ensure a national skill set and a comprehension of new technologies, new machines and new procecsses.
Guaranteeing some work opportunities federally in federal job opportunities, if people do want to work, is rather helpful so that you do not have to call someone from another culture to run your restaurants and your banking processes.
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