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1) Because a UBI program has to be paid for. It will be paid for out of taxes. If everybody simply consumes it but doesn’t contribute to helping to pay for it t
by brightball 2y ago
1) Because a UBI program has to be paid for. It will be paid for out of taxes. If everybody simply consumes it but doesn’t contribute to helping to pay for it the entire system will fail anyway.
You cannot have a UBI if it incentives the majority of people to not work in some capacity because the system will naturally fall apart.
- phatskat 2y agoThe system shouldn’t survive, that’s fine. A lot of the takes here envision UBI somehow fitting into our current economic model. In the case where AI/automation truly remove a bulk of the jobs, we shouldn’t be trying to prop up our current capitalistic model. At that point of industrialization, we will need a model that allows needs to be met without worrying about what it means to afford something, or to at least drastically reimagine it.
- mnk47 2y ago>If everybody simply consumes it but doesn’t contribute to helping to pay for it the entire system will fail anyway. In a world where AI takes jobs, couldn't they also take on the responsibility of taxes? All the top dogs from OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA, etc. keep talking about the ridiculous value that AI could provide. Trillions of dollars. I'm no economist, but here's a naive suggestion: make the robots pay taxes. If AI turns out to be as incredible as they're hyping it up to be, then every company on earth will be paying some big AI company for its services. Instead of letting OpenAI and others hoard all this money, take a cut of their insanely high revenue to pay for UBI. ... As I said, I'm not an economist - I suspect there's a serious flaw in my suggestion but I don't know what I don't know. I'd appreciate any rebuttals.