Why will you be destitute? Consider this: how do billionaires make most of their money?
I’ll answer you: people buy their stuff.
What happens if nobody has jobs? Oh, that’s right! Nobody’s buying stuff.
Then what happens? Oh yeah! Billionaires get poorer.
There’s a very rational, self-interested reason sama has been running UBI pilots and Elon is also talking about UBI - the only way they keep more money flowing into their pockets is if the largest number of people have disposable income.
> What happens if nobody has jobs? Oh, that’s right! Nobody’s buying stuff.
> Then what happens? Oh yeah! Billionaires get poorer.
Or they pivot to businesses that don't depend on consumers buying stuff.
Or pivot away from business entirely, into a realm of pure power independent of the market and conventional economics.
> There’s a very rational, self-interested reason sama has been running UBI pilots and Elon is also talking about UBI - the only way they keep more money flowing into their pockets is if the largest number of people have disposable income.
There's another very rational, self-interested reason for those people to pursue UBI: as a temporary sop to the masses, to keep them passive until they lack the power to resist.
Why will you be destitute? Consider this: how do billionaires make most of their money?
I’ll answer you: people buy their stuff.
What happens if nobody has jobs? Oh, that’s right! Nobody’s buying stuff.
Then what happens? Oh yeah! Billionaires get poorer.
There’s a very rational, self-interested reason sama has been running UBI pilots and Elon is also talking about UBI - the only way they keep more money flowing into their pockets is if the largest number of people have disposable income.
Nice, so all of us legacy humans can be kept around as pets on a fixed income for the master race of billionaires and their AI army.
> What happens if nobody has jobs? Oh, that’s right! Nobody’s buying stuff.
> Then what happens? Oh yeah! Billionaires get poorer.
Or they pivot to businesses that don't depend on consumers buying stuff.
Or pivot away from business entirely, into a realm of pure power independent of the market and conventional economics.
> There’s a very rational, self-interested reason sama has been running UBI pilots and Elon is also talking about UBI - the only way they keep more money flowing into their pockets is if the largest number of people have disposable income.
There's another very rational, self-interested reason for those people to pursue UBI: as a temporary sop to the masses, to keep them passive until they lack the power to resist.