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Zeus posted...

When the state owns everything and almost everything is automated, sure, *maybe* UBI will make sense.

Whatever we do, it's important that we're not reactive to the problem. Being reactive is almost always worse than being proactive and when it's an existential crisis for everyone but the upper echelons of society maybe we should consider this problem before years/decades after it happens.

Zeus posted...

However, it's worth noting that not everything will be automated and there will likely always be jobs for people because major labor market shifts bring new opportunities.

You people always just assume that we're never going to reach a point where AI outperforms humans in almost all fields. It doesn't matter to a generalized AI if there's a labor shift because a generalized AI can handle the new field as well. Hell we might even reach a point where most people can't even tell the difference between AI generated art and human generated art. I'm skeptical that even the creative types are safe. When human labor becomes obsolete, the people who own the lion's share of necessary resources become kings and capitalism becomes detrimental to the average person. The lower classes will have exactly zero leverage by that point.

If that happens, we can either choose to allow all people to live well or we can choose to allow some people to live like kings while the rest live at their mercy.