What motivation do we have to compensate those people who lost their jobs to automation? Would we actually need to anyway?


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What motivation do we have to compensate those people who lost their jobs to automation?
Would we actually need to anyway?
consider this:
lets say you set up a lawyer service that would review contracts, provide legal advice, etc. The average cost of electricity is 13 cents per kW hour. If the computation requires 500 kW of power, then that service would cost 6.5 cents, plus extra to maintain the equipment. lets round up to 25 cents. Imagine getting professional legal services for only 25 cents an hour! In this economy, every non-manual service would be like that.

Unless of course UBI is implemented and the course of action chosen is to tax services such as these. Then the price rises by at least the amount required to pay for said tax. We can also assume that the owners would provide themselves a fair margin of error, because of the ambiguity associated with receiving future business.