Thread by @GREENESJ333

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "The advent of AI has sparked a lot of concerns, the major one being how many jobs will be replaced."

"The Government of the People's Republic of China has decided to enact a new law, protecting jobs of those displaced by AI.
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The employer must keep the employee on unless and until an alternative position can be found or created with equivalent income and prospects."

"In other parts of the world, forcing a company to do this would be prohibitive. But this points to the need to do something."
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"In most of the West, a worker displaced can turn to government unemployment programs, but these programs rarely provide the same income. Most often much less income, and for a limited amount of time.
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Losing a job does not mean one can
stop ongoing expenses, rent, mortgage, school costs for kids, and more."

"And most unemployment programs are not sufficient to cover all one's expenses, or even a fraction of those expenses.
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Governments want austerity to motivate a person to work, but that is often not good enough in a limited market to prevent loss of housing, bankruptcies, and in many cases, loss of population for a community.
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In the USA, that could mean families splitting up as people are forced to move long distances. In Europe, that might mean countries losing their most skilled people forever."

"I do not have a solution to the problem.
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Perhaps employers being required to buy some sort of additional insurance. But whatever the solution can be, it must be. Technological development, in a time when the workers no longer have the ability to go back to a family farm or to move in with family when jobs disappear,
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should not just mean loss of everything one has, especially considering how in some places that could mean destruction of whole communities' economic base."
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