Hmmm.
I slightly disagree.
Full Job guarantee is much better in both the short run and the long term then UBI.
Federal funded, but administered locally at the county level.
Of course we also need to support those that can't work.
Not for a while..
and maybe never..
Ai Is NO threat in the near term.
Add in Environmental restoration, and Clean Energy transition.
@corlin
The thing we are all going to have to come to grips with is that moving off of fossil fuels at the speed necessary to avert EOTWAWKI level crisis is going to end a lot of work, and not create nearly as much as we need to give all the people who need it 'full time work.'
@dougthecoach @corlin It's really not about hours worked vs. productivity imo. AI is good in certain areas to make a quality of life better like helping us maintain our environment possibly. But there are still plenty of things folks can do to make money. Eventually we just need to be Star Trek...
Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Nope not gonna happen.
Read:
A series of novels based on a future society of fully automated luxury communism.
People still strive, create, work jobs, and do things bad and good too each other.
@dougthecoach @corlin You know if things were to change for the better we could get there. First step is to create the replicator all will ensue after.
@corlin Some folks do need some extra help and it's not their fault usually. @dougthecoach
@corlin Yep, this is what Kelton talks about as well, but I think it misses another largish problem: that "work" as in full wage, full time employment has been decreasing for some time, and advances in AI are going to accelerate that.
Coming out of the pandemic-induced recession, the economy reached the 2019 level of production with about 10% fewer "hous worked."
I think we are going to need some version of #UBI.