Ek dink ons regering kry klaar ñ universal basic salary, vir niks doen nie :-).
Nogal verstommend hoe vinnig dinge besig is om te gebeur...
Vanaf lasttrumpetministires, in Amerika
What Will Your Job Be In The Future?
Have you ever wondered what life might be like in the future? Will robots become common? How will people be employed? What will people do? It turns out this is a topic that the world's wealthy and elite class often like to discuss. This includes the ambitious and eccentric billionaire Elon Musk. The former CEO of the online financial services company known as PayPal now owns Tesla Motors and SpaceX, which is a company specializing in outer space exploration. In November 2016, Musk, as he has done in the past, once again warned the human race that the robots are coming, and they are going to steal many jobs. As a solution to the widespread loss of employment, Musk has suggested that the world embrace a universal basic income. "There's a pretty good chance we end up with a universal basic income, or something like that, due to automation. Yeah, I am not sure what else one would do. I think that is what would happen," Musk opined. (22) For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, universal basic income would mean that everyone is paid by the government each month regardless of what they do or do not do. In other words, people would no longer have to work. "People will have time to do other things, more complex things, more interesting things. Certainly more leisure time," Musk stated. (23) As strange as it sounds, universal income is a concept that is rapidly gaining attention today. Between January 17, 2017, and January 20, 2017, representatives of the world's most elite class descended on the small ski-town of Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum. This event was attended by kings, queens, heads of state, world leaders, and other notable figures, who gathered once again to discuss their future plans for humanity. (24) Universal basic income was a major topic at this exclusive gathering. "The machine learning revolution has really kicked in: machines can see better than humans can, diagnose cancer from medical images, understand speech almost as well, and do more and more analytical reasoning," said Erik Brynjolfsson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (25) Experts believe that 47 percent of the jobs performed by humans today could be lost to automation over the course of the next twenty years." (26) While many proponents of basic income were present at Davos, philosopher Michael Sandel was less enthusiastic about the idea. "We'd essentially be saying: 'We're going to pay you off in exchange for you accepting a world in which your contribution to the common good isn't really required, and what you do with your time, that's your business. I think that would be corrosive," Sandel said. (27)
It is important to note that they are talking about universal basic income. The word universal implies that such a system would be implemented on a global level. It would likely be entirely cashless and could possibly require the user to receive a microchip in their right hand or forehead. It is essentially an allowance from the one world government. What better way to entice the people than with the promise of free money?
While this new system would certainly give people much more free time, it would also likely lead to a widespread lack of direction and purpose for the human race. The aforementioned Elon Musk has a solution for this problem, too. Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in February 2017, Musk suggested that the human race will need to merge with machines to stay relevant in a world dominated by robots and artificial intelligence. "Some high bandwidth interface to the brain will be something that helps achieve a symbiosis between human and machine intelligence and maybe solves the control problem and the usefulness problem," Musk detailed. (28) While Musk and others of his ilk may desire a world where mankind is merged with machine, I do not believe that this is a reality that God will ever allow to come to fruition. Nevertheless, we live in a strange period of time where science fiction may soon not be fiction anymore.
Will You Soon Be Offered A Microchip Implant?
In recent years it has become increasingly common for animals and pets to be implanted with radio frequency identification (RFID) microchips. Encapsulated in glass and about the size of a grain of rice, these chips are often touted as an effective tool against the loss of runaway pets. It has become so commonplace that most people do not even blink when they hear of a cat or dog being implanted with a chip. In some areas of the world, these microchips are mandatory. For example, a new law requiring all dogs in the United Kingdom to be implanted with a microchip went into effect in April 2016. (29)
Implanting animals is one thing, but will it ever become common for human beings to receive microchips? It is already happening. A marketing company in Belgium, known as NewFusion, is providing its employees with microchips, presenting them as a more convenient alternative to traditional identification badges. (30) Meanwhile, tenants and employees at an office complex in Sweden, known as Epicenter, have been receiving microchip implants since 2015. "We already interact with technology all the time. Today it's a bit messy - we need pin codes and passwords. Wouldn't it be easier to just touch with your hand? That's really intuitive," said Hannes Sjoblad, who holds the strange title of "chief disruption officer" at the complex. Although human chipping is uncommon today, Sjoblad believes his company is doing important work preparing people for the day when such chips become government mandated. "We want to be able to understand this technology before big corporates and big government come to us and say everyone should get chipped - the tax authority chip, the Google or Facebook chip," Sjoblad said. (31) This is a startling admission, and it makes it clear the direction our world is heading. Could we soon be facing a world where human beings are branded and chipped like cattle by an overbearing global government?
Here let it be noted that a Senator in the American state of Nevada recently introduced a bill to the state legislature that would make it illegal for anyone to mandate microchip implants for human beings. "This is a completely new issue. I just want a safety measure in place until we better understand the technology and the reasoning behind people's desire to require implanting chips," said Republican Senator Becky Harris of Nevada. (32) Harris was also quoted as saying, "As I began to look into the issue, I was surprised with the merit that I believe the issue warrants." (33) Senator Harris also cited a report from the Wall Street Journal which indicates that an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 microchips designed for human implantation have been sold worldwide. "It's done under the idea to unlock doors or use copy machines or maybe pay for lunch, you could use your hand," Harris said. (34) The states of Wisconsin, North Dakota, California, and Oklahoma have all previously passed laws banning compulsory microchipping of humans. (35