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If it's a universal basic income, it should just be automated as well. By the point automation has advance enough to require UBI, it's advanced enough to handle
by Gargoyle 10y ago
If it's a universal basic income, it should just be automated as well. By the point automation has advance enough to require UBI, it's advanced enough to handle its administration. Pull the human governance aspects out of it.
- sqeaky 10y agoWho runs the automation for UBI? With Artificial General Intelligence a person needs to run it. Put another way, A self driving car can put 10 taxi drivers out of work, but it cannot manage a monetary fund. Neither can the mechanic who fixes the car.
- badsock 10y agoMy argument would be: UBI could be so simple that it wouldn't allow for corruption. A dollar amount shows up in your bank account every day. If it doesn't, that's a problem. The one debate should be whether the number should be moved up or down. If there's exceptions (like criminals not getting it or something), then it's not UBI.
- sqeaky 10y agoThis is exactly th kind of automation the article ignores. This implementation of UBI could be a small python script that fits in single gist, but if implemented even just 20 years ago would involve the labor of hundreds.