AI and robots are owned, not by users, but by owners, VCs, LLCs and corporations.
If anyone has paid attention, someone would have realized these owning entities aren't contributing anything to our general wellbeing anymore. It's the other way around. It has been for a very long time. It will stay that way, and worsen, until we revolt.
UBI will only happen when most users (say 90% of actual World population) are gone (as in permanently turned into dust). And yes, the clock is ticking.
bradley13•2mo ago
The author misses one important, cold-blooded point: Why should someone receive UBI?
Present social systems are based on the idea that a few people are down on their lick. So you help them until they get back on their feet. Some few people make welfare their career, but that is a minority.
If nearly everyone is getting UBI, you have to ask: where is that much money coming from? If it exists, why would those few people/corporations/whatever agree to part with it? They must be immensely powerful, so why wouldn't they just say "no"?
The world is not a utopia. UBI is not going to happen. Not even because of AI.
f33d5173•2mo ago
bradley13•2mo ago