Bernie Sanders
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If the entire assembly line, we talked about this about China and some of their coal factories.
There was this video that I watched of this coal factory in China, which is entirely automated every step of the way.
No human beings at all?
No human beings at all.
I mean, there's probably a few overseers that make sure that all the systems are functioning correctly.
So you have software engineers and people that are β
But the trucks even park themselves next to the charging station and recharge.
And then they're moving 24 hours a day, unloading, documenting where everything is.
It's all in computer databases.
It's wild to watch because there's no people.
It's all just 24 hours a day.
What do you do when there's no need for these people?
And what happens, even with universal basic income, what we're talking about, I support it.
I'm a big supporter of social safety nets.
Look, when I was a kid, my family was on welfare.
And we were on food stamps too.
If you don't have that, people go hungry.
Again, if we're going to support the community, we want people to be able to survive and be able to work their way out of that.