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I don't know how assets can even be owned, when no one has jobs. If we all get AI-ABI, we'd all have the same income. Where does the money to purchase assets then come from? Savings? So we make the current wealth disparities permanent?

Or do assets just become worthless as a savings vehicle and we just divvy them up amongst the populace by who is most favored by the government?

I mean, we could argue that we _already_ divvy them up that way...

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Thekid.999 · 3w
People need to learn how to sacrifice. Do I go out for brunch? Or do I buy Bitcoin? Do I go on vacation or do I buy Bitcoin? Do I buy new computer stuff or do I buy Bitcoin? Do I buy new clothes or do I buy bitcoins? Should I sell my car? So I don't have an insurance payment, so I can buy Bitcoin. ...
Daniel Wigton · 3w
Don't worry about AI-UBI. Elon is making things up. Notice that he has to hire like crazy to build his AI Utopia.
protom · 3w
Not wanting to paint everything black here but I think the solution (the powers that be emvision) has been laid out already in 2020. The book(let) is called the great reset, the prominent sentence is "You will own nothing, and you will be happy". Just that they changed leadership does not mean they ...
lifeisjustreplication · 3w
How is this even a question? 🙃 Everyone gets some amount of AI-ABI .. but how much of their UBI people decide to spend on the assets (as opposed to savings and other things) is different and for them to decide. No big difference coompared to now IMO.
Raison d'État · 3w
Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs" will proliferate (more), and the UBI movement will fail to displace the "welfare" bureaucracy. Government favour as key to success, as you said, but with some oligarchs retaining some autonomy, and their own retinues. But only for as long as intra-elite conflicts don't d...
Tommy "The Purchase" · 3w
I would assume that in such a system, us lowly citizens would have no right to sow dissent by asking such questions and would be reported to the office of the Morale Conditioner.