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> I think it's inevitable that we will see some kind of UBI Is it though? I don't think it's impossible we see some kind of cyberpunk dystopia, where powerful
by Ygg2 6y ago
> I think it's inevitable that we will see some kind of UBI
Is it though? I don't think it's impossible we see some kind of cyberpunk dystopia, where powerful live isolated lives, protected by the police/military, and the rest live in squalor.
What happens if you automate everything, and realize you don't need to feed millions of mouths. And, hey, police-military complex is already automated, so just send the drones and let them remove the excess humans.
- commandlinefan 6y ago> some kind of cyberpunk dystopia, where powerful live isolated lives, protected by the police/military, and the rest live in squalor. Even in that scenario, if all useful work is truly automated, there's either still some sort of UBI (just not enough to live comfortably) or the people living in squalor are subsistence farmers eating whatever they can manage to grow in whatever land they can lay claim to.