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UBI assumes a sort-of Star Trek utopianism whereby production is severely decoupled from labor input. It depends on whether we're pointed at "replicators" ( or
by ArkyBeagle 10y ago
UBI assumes a sort-of Star Trek utopianism whereby production is severely decoupled from labor input.
It depends on whether we're pointed at "replicators" ( or some assemblage reinventing them ) and how far we get there, how fast.
And some who advocate for it are just Levellers.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> UBI assumes a sort-of Star Trek utopianism whereby production is severely decoupled from labor input. No, it doesn't. A mature (sufficient to live reasonably comfortably on its own) UBI probably needs a significant revolution in productivity to be sustainable, but UBI does not rely on production being decoupled from labor input (in fact, one of the arguments for it is that, compared to status quo systems and other alternatives to them that have been proposed, it provides better capacity for worker retraining and realignment of labor to meet changing needs.)
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoI thought "sort-of" was enough weasel to imply "significant revolution in productivity." :) See what you've done? Now I'm thinking about how you could construct a feasibility model :) In my case, probably "badly." Hell, get all the status-seeking crap outta work and you'll probably have better results. Yeah, right :)