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101  Other / Politics & Society / Revocation of the citizenship and exile as a punishment on: February 26, 2016, 05:49:33 AM
The idea is to strip-off citizenship from the convicted felon instead of putting him in prison. Government of his home country can sign a contract with one of the poorest states in the world (Burundi, Malawi, Liberia etc), so in exchange for some monetary compensation the poor country would grant him a citizenship, then his home country will revoke his nationality and expel convict to the poor state.

Compensation for the poor country will be order of magnitude lower than costs keeping him in prison, but deterring effect much stronger than prison time because most people would choose to spend some time in US or EU prison instead of spending rest of life in Sub-Saharan Africa!
102  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Who will win WW3? on: February 26, 2016, 05:06:50 AM
I don't think China will support corrupt Russian government in the war against US/NATO. Business ties between US-China are much stronger then Russia-China and Chinese govt seems to silently support US/EU sanctions against Russia now.
103  Other / Politics & Society / Human capital investments protection on: January 21, 2016, 05:17:17 AM
It's obvious that investments in human capital (education & healthcare) are essential for every country to prosper. However, this type of investment probably is the most unprotected nowadays. In many countries (especially in Europe) education and healthcare are free of charge and funded through taxes, collected from entire population. But there is a catch - many people receive these goods for free, then leave home country, seeking higher salary in another place. For EU citizens its extremely easy (no need for a visa or work permit, just to buy an airplane ticket) and poorer countries suffer from this problem the most (e.g. Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal). Rich countries like Germany, UK and Sweden benefit from this situation receiving large crowd of educated, healthy, young people.

I guess that many people on this forum oppose any freedom restrictions, but let be honest - people who leave homeland for a higher salary right after receiving free higher education and having good health conditions thanks to free healthcare are leeches, who parasite on other taxpayers remaining in the country.

Proposed solution could be introducing exit visas (permits to leave the country) which will be issued only after a potential expat signs an agreement to repay all costs the state have spent on his education and healthcare or makes some achievement that significantly benefit the county (e.g. an important invention and donates patent to the state). This measure will significantly improve education and healthcare system's funding and make it more affordable and better quality.
104  Economy / Economics / Re: Stephen Hawking: ‘technology is driving ever-increasing inequality" on: October 16, 2015, 03:19:39 AM
I think even wealthy people and convinced libertarians will come to the conclusion that some sort of wealth redistribution is simply essential for economy to function in the highly-automated world. Without a strong middle class who will buy goods and services which the corporations, owned by these wealthy men, produce?!
105  Other / Archival / Re: Ban fucking auto loans from printed money!!! on: September 27, 2015, 01:58:17 AM
I think better idea is to prohibit all hydrocarbon-powered cars (gasoline, diesel, LPG, CNG) from large cities after some date (e.g. 2030). Automotive companies will know they must develop good and cheap electric cars or go bankrupt after this date. Urging them to be "green" is foolish, they will always find the ways how to cheat (look at recent Volkswagen trick).
106  Economy / Economics / Re: Technological unemployment is (almost) here on: July 21, 2015, 04:30:18 AM
Barclays set to cut 30,000 jobs as it looks to increase automation and reduce costs
107  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Oregon to test pay-per-mile idea as replacement for gas tax on: July 05, 2015, 04:02:42 AM
Truck drivers and cabbies should be taxed more than regular commuters?
Trucks cause much more wear to the roads comparing with light cars, therefore it is fair to tax them higher.
108  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Christian bakers fined $135,000 for refusing to make wedding cake for lesbians on: July 05, 2015, 02:17:10 AM
I am wondering why these bakers just didn't refused making cake on the grounds of overflow of the order list. They could tell these lesbians that they have already a bunch of unfinished work and cannot accept more orders now.
109  Economy / Economics / Re: Grexit on: June 30, 2015, 11:36:46 PM
But at the same time, the people will be losing a major part of their savings, and this will have an impact on the long term. Only the bankers will get rich from the currency devaluation.
Smart people don't keep funds in Greek banks!
110  Economy / Economics / Greek referendum on: June 27, 2015, 02:50:48 AM
Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras just announced referendum to ask people about proposed IMF/ECB bailout conditions.
If majority of the people will vote for, austerity measures will be implemented (pension cuts, tax increases, layoffs, privatization etc).
Otherwise Greece have to default and most likely to leave Eurozone and/or European Union altogether.
111  Economy / Economics / Re: Technological unemployment is (almost) here on: June 24, 2015, 03:26:48 AM
Here's how to solve the problem of potential backlash against robots:
Provide each worker displaced with a "golden parachute" that will provide for him for the rest of his life. That's what CEO's get when they become obsolete .
This won't solve the problem for young people who looking for a first job.
112  Economy / Economics / Re: Technological unemployment is (almost) here on: April 10, 2015, 11:23:01 PM
solution: cut taxes and gov spending
for people to lazy to work thinking they can just steal it or do other criminal things, there's a death penalty for that  Cool
Most likely "death penalty" will be for you, conservative fanatics, conducted by unemployed crowd! Good news are that these people won't waste $100K+ of taxpayer funds on lethal injection but choose cheaper method instead!  Grin
113  Economy / Economics / Re: Technological unemployment is (almost) here on: April 07, 2015, 03:03:46 AM
Just found interesting report from the UK Ministry of Defence which describes trends up to 2045 year. Technological unemployment issue also mentioned in it.

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Robots and automated systems have the potential to be near-ubiquitous in 2045, capable of carrying out extremely complex tasks with no human involvement. Potentially, machines could: carry out all manufacturing and agricultural tasks; repair themselves; as well as clean, cook and tidy. Advances in artificial intelligences could make machines so life-like that they are able to answer phones in call-centres, take care of children and even teach. Computers could potentially diagnose and treat almost every medical condition. If progress on this scale is made in the future, it is possible that there would be very few jobs still carried out by human beings, who could, in practice, be almost totally excluded from the workforce.

In richer countries, this large-scale automation of work would be likely to have a mostly positive effect, as governments would probably be able to provide their citizens with all the material comforts they need.  However, many people may initially struggle to achieve a sense of purpose and social status without work, with possible rises in cases of depression. Education systems may need to be totally redesigned to enable people to self-motivate and to gain satisfaction from activities other than work. Over time, when populations had become more used to a life without work, they may fill their time playing sport, painting, reading and composing music.

In poorer countries, however, large-scale automation of work could stall economic development, perhaps even reversing it. For example, foreign companies would be far less likely to employ cheap labour, as machines would be so much more cost-effective and efficient.  Some employment could initially remain, as poorer countries would be less likely to afford to use machines to carry out roles in their internal labour markets. Eventually, though, automated equipment would probably become cheap enough for even these countries to afford. Poorer governments may not be able to provide more than an extremely basic level of subsistence, meaning that people would have no way to improve their living conditions. This could lead them to become deeply frustrated and angry. Nevertheless, citizens would still receive some benefits from large-scale automation, such as charity-funded machines capable of providing very cheap diagnosis and treating disease. Mass protests and civil unrest could still develop, with ‘anti-robot’ movements becoming increasingly powerful.

P.S. With the phrase "governments would probably be able to provide their citizens with all the material comforts they need" report's authors see large-scale redistribution, which seems inevitable even for right-leaning/conservative people (which I think these military analysts are).
114  Economy / Economics / Re: Technological unemployment is (almost) here on: March 29, 2015, 03:24:33 AM
AI will always have a cost, if it does not, then we don't care about having a job because everybody will be taken cared by robots.
These robots still will need resource to work (land, energy, raw materials) which mostly are owned by "1%" now!

Fair enough, *if*  LF is proven wrong, we should have some idea of what to do. However, the Op's ideas both come from a far-far-left perspective that would require that almost all individual liberties be given up. I can't support that. If large scale unemployment were to become a huge problem that cannot be addressed, I suspect we could find better solutions, although I admit I can't think of many right now.
You, conservative fanatics, must understand that it is absolute game over for you when Luddite Fallacy will break down! Other options are simply impossible!

But with so high tax, companies will be reluctant to stay in the country and move the operation to other countries. Usually enterprises get the most income, they have many legal ways to avoid the tax. So the welfare condition purely depends on the income of the employees, which is constantly being outsourced to low cost countries
The government could stop this by imposing prohibitory "exit tax" or nationalization.

So while unemployment (number of people with zero income) is slowly increasing and demand is falling, the factory could just scale down its operations accordingly, and in theory could exist even with 90% unemployment.
You forgot about security costs when 90% of population are unemployed and have nothing to lose! Grin
115  Economy / Economics / Re: Technological unemployment is (almost) here on: March 24, 2015, 09:49:25 PM
Steve Wozniak admitted the problem!

http://uk.businessinsider.com/steve-wozniak-artificial-intelligence-interview-humans-family-pets-2015-3
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118  Economy / Speculation / Re: The price is dropping, fine. But How much should it be worth? on: January 15, 2015, 03:46:29 AM
it doesn't matter how many businesses accept bitcoin, if all of them are pegging their bitcoin prices to the exchange price. it doesn't really count as helping the BTC economy unless they offer their goods/services directly for a specific amount of BTC itself, and not just the $ equivalent amount of BTC.
Keep in mind that most people will buy extra Bitcoins even if they plan to spend some specific amount on the concrete product. Therefore even if all merchants will immediately convert received BTC to USD, buyers still will have some "redundant" Bitcoins left and won't convert them back to USD (these coins will be removed from the market and lower pressure on the BTC/$ price).
119  Economy / Service Discussion / Re: BITSTAMPS BACK! on: January 09, 2015, 07:54:53 PM
Price up!!!
120  Economy / Economics / Re: Technological unemployment is (almost) here on: January 09, 2015, 02:49:25 AM
Professional poker players, tech unemployment come for you also!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-08/texas-hold-em-mastered-in-months-by-computer-with-no-wrong-moves.html
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