AI, AGI, and robots in the upcoming years is going to bring a tsunami of political pressure for UBI. I think this is going to be unavoidable.
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It's too high a standard to expect most people to change their minds and biases with better arguments. Most times I'm just using them to test my own beliefs against so atleast maybe I still learn something.
It seems machines will eventually out compete us in every way. Doesn't that mean everyone will live on welfare since they can no longer trade their labor? When merit is gone and the only way to get value is by owning machines, I imagine the political pressure would be enormous.