who needs a cash register job anyway

[blackjedii]

Amazon Go: We’re All F**kedIf you haven’t heard, Amazon just launched a promo for a storefront that sells meal kits and grocery basics with no checkout lines. It’s based in Seattle and currently open to Amazon employees, with the public launch set for early 2017. While Amazon hasn’t explained their “Just Walk Out” technology that powers the

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[elenbarathi]

Universal basic income plus a comprehensive national health service (including dental) could eliminate the need for all means-tested aid programs, and the expensive, inefficient bureauocracies that implement them

[meadowphoenix]

i'd rather they be freeloaders on the system, tbh. A "youth service" is ripe for governmental abuse

[lied_ohne_worte]

That sounds... problematic. What about people who don't do their work properly, or who refuse to work at all? Or people who would really prefer to start studying/learning a trade right now? Once you start sanctioning people who don't comply, it would move into forced labour territory really quickly.

[amw]

Personally I kind of like the idea of national service. Not because I believe in nationalism (in fact, I am aggressively internationalist), but the idea of doing some kind of work for the community as a part of education just feels right to me somehow. It should be seen as an extension of civics or social studies. I also think organizations like the Peace Corps are fundamentally a good idea. But there are definitely risks and there is a strong ideological argument to be made against any kind of state-sponsored national service

[mutive]

Agreed with all your points.

And a lot of countries do have mandatory national service. Honestly, it seems like a great idea on a lot of levels. Teens get job training, typically, and are forced to branch out in a way they might not in their normal environment. (One of my MBA classmates did his national service in a Holocaust museum in the US where he perfected his English, which I suspect helped him in his later very international career in SE Asia. Needless to say, he picked up a number of other languages along the way.)

[evildevil]

I just want three policies: Workers' Coops, Universal Healthcare, and a Universal Guarantee Basic Income (No string attach to it, otherwise it will be abused). That's it.

[evildevil]

Oh, and free education.