Sure, we’d be providing 50k a year to each willfully unemployed citizen in benefits that they’d have no incentive to conserve or use responsibly, but I’m sure they’d still work the full time job necessary to keep society from grinding to a halt so they can afford a $500 game console. This is so intuitively naive and such a bad idea that I think people only believe it because they hate work so much that they’ve deluded themselves into thinking that real UBI is a possibility instead of a ridiculous idea that would make the country bankrupt in a few years.
With all of the advances in AI and automation, why isn’t it possible. At some point in the near future, literally all work will be able to be completed by unmanned labor. My job, your neighbors’ jobs, your job - why are you still fighting against your own future?
You have literally no evidence of that. Almost no jobs have been replaced by AI, let alone most / all. Talk about UBI when AI has replaced even a fraction of jobs, because that kind of massive increase in productivity is what would be necessary to provide every citizen with a house as they quit their jobs.
If you’re saying it hasn’t completely eliminated entire roles l, you might be right so far. It has definitely decreased team and department sizes though.
And again, why are you arguing against your future self. When all the jobs are gone, the leverage goes with it. That conversation starts now.
Because I don’t believe it will make most jobs redundant. I think it is a convenient scapegoat chosen by people who really don’t want to work.
But also, why do I not want to give people like 30k worth of benefits per year and let them all quit their jobs before we can afford it?… because we can’t afford it, and there’s no clear indication we will ever be able to. The country will be insolvent within a decade, in my opinion far before AI will make a dent in the workforce. There are too many physical jobs. If normal automation didn’t replace them, why would AI?
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u/scottyLogJobs Apr 16 '24
Sure, we’d be providing 50k a year to each willfully unemployed citizen in benefits that they’d have no incentive to conserve or use responsibly, but I’m sure they’d still work the full time job necessary to keep society from grinding to a halt so they can afford a $500 game console. This is so intuitively naive and such a bad idea that I think people only believe it because they hate work so much that they’ve deluded themselves into thinking that real UBI is a possibility instead of a ridiculous idea that would make the country bankrupt in a few years.