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I suspect that UBI, or something similar, will be necessary when automation/AI/whatever-you-like is good enough to replace "front-end", customer-facing jobs. At

I suspect that UBI, or something similar, will be necessary when automation/AI/whatever-you-like is good enough to replace "front-end", customer-facing jobs. At that point, it'll be hard to break into the job market without having a degree in something, and there'll be a sharp spike of unemployment in the lower class.

gremlinsinc 9y ago
Replace that 'degree in something' with 'degree in an IT field'. There will come a day, where programming and creative arts are the only things not fully automated. Doctors, Surgeons, Lawyers, even Architects will probably be automated by 2040. Hopefully, that brings hospital care costs down, but I'm betting their still greedy and just make 10x as much on 10x less staff. I'm anxious for the ai revolution to just get on with already. UBI will be needed eventually, I want us to hurry and get to the breaking point where unemployment is 40% or greater across the globe because of automation so policymakers start to see that without some safety net for people there will be an uprising. I'm optimistic we can come together as a human race and solve poverty someday. But I'm not naive, it could become a dystopian world where the rich live in lavish cities with closed walls, and everyone else lives outside those walls.
greggman 9y ago
Vox recent uploaded a video about that topic arguing that might not happen https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TUmyygCMMGA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TUmyygCMMGA