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10. You can bet that...

Reply to highplainsdem (Reply #9)

Sat Nov 29, 2025, 02:04 PM

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any attempts at governmental implementation of universal basic income at the expense of corporations will immediately result in outcries of "Socialism! Socialism!" Corporate owners and executives love socialism for themselves, but not for the rest of us.

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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