Comment by soco
2 months ago
So you end up with a huge starved mob trying to come all over your mansions and islands. I somehow think Musk totally capable of nuking those mobs, or unleash the (future) AI dogs over them, because the mob cannot produce anymore (because of AI) and cannot pay anymore (because no jobs because of AI). So the mob will be totally worthless to this style of "capitalism". Really why would they bother with UBI when they can let the mob just die out?
> Really why would they bother with UBI when they can let the mob just die out?
Personally, I think UBI is a ploy to keep the "huge starved mob[s]" pacified during the transition, when they still have enough power to act, before the tech oligarchs fully cement their control.
Once the common people are powerless to protect themselves and their interests, then they'll be left to die out.