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by Jedd 693 days ago
My dude, that is a despairing world view you have there.

First, no UBI proponents are suggesting that it be

a) combined with a bureaucratic dictatorship, and

b) implemented absent significant concurrent social and financial changes.

Your phrasing makes me think you're based in the USA, and so I can understand some of the societal norms that might have led you to believe we can't have a better quality of life, a better society, simply because amoeba have to hunt their prey to survive.

We -- intelligent life forms with breathtakingly advanced technologies (compared to what we would need to just live) -- can do much better.