[solipsism]

But UBI doesn’t address people’s loss of dignity or meet their need to feel useful.

We need to find the jobs that AI can’t do and train people to do them

The author raises and then dismisses UBI in a handful of sentences. Then he asserts that we need to be inventing AI-proof jobs -- not because they're useful and worth doing but just to avoid having to change.

The changes we have coped with as a species are incredible. From hunter gatherers to agrarians, to the development of civilizations with laws, to the industrial revolution, etc.

I think it's an incredibly pessimistic and narrow view of humanity to presuppose we need to be making busy work for people.

Of course corporations and politicians should be approaching this problem honestly. But we should also approach it open-mindedly.

[XorNot]

There's a difference between busy work and meaningful work. And people need meaningful work to do even if the meaning is only something for them.

So no, people don't need busy work - and that's the challenge.