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gulliver

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Reply to ananda (Reply #1)

Sat Nov 29, 2025, 12:49 PM

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UBI may finally be getting its chance. It seems to me that AI will make labor cheap. That means products will be cheap too. Very cheap. And, really, there's no reason everyone shouldn't be able to share in that. Yang makes a good point in the clip about it still being capitalism, we just wouldn't be starting at $0 as the base income.

To me, that means we could still do work. It would just be money we could earn over and above a very good universal basic income.

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The AI dividend [View all] gulliver Saturday OP

I keep wondering what good AI is if nobody has any money. ananda Saturday #1

Exactly gulliver Saturday #2

Yes, very cheap to the companies. Those cost savings NEVER go to the purchasers only to the executives LiberalArkie Saturday #3

Just make the UBI whatever it takes to pay the cost gulliver Saturday #7

Universal Basic Income coupled with a wealth tax that is not just income but a person/company assets. LiberalArkie Saturday #12

It could be an automation tax that functions like income tax gulliver Saturday #14

99% UE by 2030? WarGamer Saturday #4

Yeah, I clicked the link gulliver Saturday #5

exactly!!! WarGamer Saturday #6

Science Fiction writers and futurists have been discussing the "robot" issue.. BH liberal Saturday #8

There will be no UBI from the tech lords. You really think that the people bribing and flattering Trump highplainsdem Saturday #9

You can bet that... BH liberal Saturday #10

Exactly. highplainsdem Saturday #11

All the doomsaying in my life from we are going to die from nukes, computers are going to take our jobs, internet is Silent Type Saturday #13