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> can't wait for an UBI-based + social welfare future I have some spicy spicy takes about that future. If you peruse my other comments on my profile you’ll see
by qualudeheart 4y ago
> can't wait for an UBI-based + social welfare future
I have some spicy spicy takes about that future. If you peruse my other comments on my profile you’ll see them.
I’d expect the most likely outcome to be competiting welfare systems. The largest will be public and be extensions of the existing welfare systems. Private entities— corporations, nonprofits and billionaires- will run combined housing and UBI projects. You get to live with other people who have declared loyalty to the same entity. It will be like serfdom in the middle ages, but without the work.
Depending on who you live under, it could either be really good or really bad. In the suckier places it can be like a prison or a cult.
Here’s some food for thought. The State already runs living spaces for people who usually aren’t economically productive. Those spaces are called prisons and housing projects.
If communist societies could give everyone an apartment we can do the same with all the productivity unleashed by AGI. The tougher question is how we do that without abusing the tenants.
Maybe we can tame the dragons.