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Blurry_Buildings

Blurry_Buildings

Just Existing
Sep 27, 2023
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In a rapidly evolving world where AI and increasing automation in general lead to large gains in productivity at the expense of white collar jobs, would you support a Universal Basic Income? Would your support change if this came at the partial expense of other social programs, like social security and the military?
 
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DarkRange55

DarkRange55

I am Skynet
Oct 15, 2023
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My best friend who works in the tech industry doesn't like it in principle but he sees it as an eventual inevitability — if the majority of the population no longer needs to work due to advances in technology they can either have UBI or alternatively faux-jobs to keep themselves happy with a sense of purpose and accomplishment, not matter how artificial or trite.

I did a paper in college that I've mentioned here before and I said something along the lines of, by 2100, a form of basic income has been instituted in most first-world countries as a measure to protect the economy from collapse, thus ensuring most citizens have some money to spend to keep it going. A form of basic income has been instituted in most first-world countries as a measure to protect the economy from collapse, thus ensuring most citizens have some money to spend to keep it going.
Or maybe we can get the communist space utopia economy from Star Trek lore that I love haha


Not really a direct answer to your question but that at least helps move the conversation along haha

What say you, @noname223
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