Comment by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF
5 hours ago
> How should people make money? No idea, as in the "prosperous future", everything is replaced by AI.
If we taxed land ownership a la Georgism and then taxed negative externalities like pollution, we could give everyone UBI and probably kick back and take it easy for a bit.
Of course this would require a global democratic mandate bigger than the world's ever seen, so I'm not waiting up on it.
I predict global slavery to emerge sooner than UBI will become a reality. Call me a pessimist if you wish
UBI didn't work for the Communists, can't see how it's going to happen in a fractious democracy.
I think a the biggest "global democratic mandate" ever seen is functionally a dictatorship... And apart from the Communists, dictatorship don't have the sort of priorities that lead to UBI.