I didn't say they would repair robots like engineers. In fact I didn't use the word 'repair' at all - it's you who puts words in my mouth. I said they maintain the machines that maintain the machines.
Maybe they just grease them. Maybe they just pull them along the streets. Maybe they dust them and insert tab A into slot B. I don't know. It's their problem not mine.
So to review:
1) You don't think automation will ever be a problem for labor markets.
2) If even automation does replace people's jobs you don't care because you believe it's the problem of the people who are left without means to support themselves.
3) You have some very weird and incorrect ideas about the way labor markets work.
4) Also you think a robot that is sophisticated enough to repair other robots might need to be dragged from place to place through the streets by humans.
I see I've been trying to argue with you about #3 which it really doesn't matter given our much deeper and more fundamental disagreement about #2.
And given #4, I think you've completely destroyed your credibility to argue for your views on point #1.
You accuse me of selective quoting
When did I accuse you of that? Please provide either a link to the specific post or you could just copy and paste the words I used.
As for your other argument, it seems you're saying that giving workers free money to increase their bargaining power somehow represents something other than market distortion.
Yes, that is in fact exactly what I am saying. Whether or not people have other sorts of income does not distort labor markets. That's what we discussed all evening. I'm glad we can at least finally agree on the specific content of one thing that I have said today.
I suppose if your goal is to free people from the inequities of different work ethics, skill sets and genetic endowments, then yes, in that sense, people will get freer.
Nope, not my goal at all. That's why I want a free labor market which, as we've established would happen under a UBI, would continued to reward both those with greater work ethics or more valuable skill sets with higher wages, and provide no disincentive for people to pursue gainful employment.
BeepBoop, you have twice made specific statements about me saying things: Firstly you stated the I was saying a UBI wouldn't increase the bargaining power of workers bargaining when I was, in fact, saying that it would indeed increase the bargaining power of workers. And secondly that I have accused you of selectively quoting me. Which I haven't.
I would ask you to kindly either back up either of those assertions with specific references/quotations, or cease to claim I hold positions I do not and cease to claim I have made statements which I have not.