Bernie Sanders Can’t Answer When Asked How Humans Find Meaning If His Socialist Dream Is Realized

Bernie Sanders wants to solve AI with socialism — but he doesn’t know how humans will find meaning in his socialist paradise.

The 83-year-old senior senator from Vermont recently took time off of his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour to appear on “The Joe Rogan Experience.”

During the almost two-hour episode, Rogan asked Sanders how humans will find meaning if artificial intelligence takes jobs and the government provides for everyone’s needs.

“Andrew Yang was talking about this giant epidemic of automation in this country and the solution being universal basic income, but that’s not the solution for meaning,” Rogan said. “And how do we convince all of these people that they have to not just take this money from the government, but also take action to give themselves meaning in their lives?”

Sanders tried to reframe the question as “a revolution in human experience.”

“So throughout history, people have worked so hard just to stay alive, right?” Sanders said. “If you don’t need to do work, right, because we’re wealthy enough, how do you find meaning in your life?”

Sanders called it a “trillion-dollar question” and said dependence on AI is not the answer.

“All I would say at this moment is the answer is not to fall in love with your AI creature out there,” Sanders said.

Rogan wasn’t satisfied.

“Yeah, don’t do that,” Rogan said. “But also, how do you find meaning? How do you — if all you’re doing is just getting a check, and you can just stay at home and stare at the TV, and the money keeps coming, and then you eat processed food all day, and it’s all subsidized, what is life?”

Sanders said the immediate solution is to take care of workers who lost jobs to AI.

“I think you tell those workers, you’re going to have health care as a human right, you’re going to have education as a human right, you’re going to have a decent income as a human right, and we’re going to lower — substantially lower — the work week,” Sanders said. “What happens later, when even more work is eliminated, and what the purpose of human life becomes, that is a very profound question.”

“What do you think happens?” Rogan asked.

“It’s hard to imagine,” Sanders said. “Then the answer will be that we are going to have to find different meaning in life. We have to find it in ourselves in ways that you don’t know and I don’t know, because we’re not there yet.”

Sanders said he doesn’t know how far out the problem is.

“But I think human beings are capable of replacing work with other emotionally satisfying things,” Sanders said. “Yeah, I think we can do it.”

Rogan said the problem would be providing meaning for millions of people.

“What do you do to all those people to give them some sort of a sense of meaning?” Rogan asked. “You’re essentially redefining life for them.”

“I don’t have the answer to that question,” Sanders admitted again. “That’s the problem. I don’t think anybody does.”

Despite not having an answer, the senator still managed to bring the issue back to taxing the rich.

“The people who own that technology and the corporations who utilize that [AI] technology are becoming phenomenally richer,” Sanders said. “And that is the issue. Which gets back to things like tax reform, like making sure that in America, we do not have the massive levels of income and wealth inequality that we currently have.”