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by supriyo-biswas 19 days ago
Such a utopian future is unlikely to materialize however. The salary that one gets paid is backed by the generated (and perceived) value of the work they did, and if people do not have anything to offer in form of labor, then it will create pressures to reduce any UBI style wages paid out, as well as provoke internal conflict as people try to come up with justifications for why they should have a larger share of said basic wages, etc.
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You seem to not know what UBI is. The U stands for Universal, meaning everyone gets the same. Universal Basic Income, a fixed amount of money everyone gets whether they work or not. Nobody gets 'a larger share'

Unlike work, where your wages are theoretically matched to your output, UBI is not.