[mockingloris]

@unnamed76ri Haha, I love the Star Trek nod! Their post-money world sounds great, but where I'm from, hustle economy/treet vendors, okada riders, shows how hard it is to imagine no one needing cash.

Even if AI automates a ton, people will still want incentives for less glamorous jobs. Maybe UBI isn’t about scrapping money but ensuring a baseline so folks aren’t stuck scrubbing metaphorical torpedo tubes.

What’s your take—could a partial UBI make “low-level” work more voluntary?

└── Yarn me

[billy99k]

When generations of people are on UBI,and this is all they know, the system starts to require more capital and tax revenue, until it collapses.

I think one other aspect of this system is that if you are getting UBI, you give up your voting rights.

[unnamed76ri]

I don’t know, I won’t claim expertise on this subject. But it feels like any kind of UBI risks creating a permanent underclass of people much like current welfare programs that carry no incentive to get off said programs do.

Every economic system has its flaws and can be exploited. Capitalism has been responsible for lifting billions of people out of poverty. But it’s also been corrupted by cronyism.

The coming AI revolution will likely cause capitalism’s issues to be more pronounced.