• UziBobuzi@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The capitalist oligarchy will never allow UBI. They want people desperate and starving so they’ll take any crumbs tossed their way.

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      1 year ago

      Corporations will just make everything more expensive relatively to the amount of extra income everyone is getting. Cause why wouldn’t they? They’ll probably blame labor shortages again too.

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    “At this stage, proposals on how to implement a robot tax in practice remain very nebulous,” she says. “Legislators are likely to deal with the complexity of defining what constitutes a ‘robot’ and how to tax it. The distinction between a machine and a robot or between a computer program and AI is still not clear.”

    Considering that virtually all industries are going to become AI powered to one degree or another in the near future, perhaps it would be more straightforward to demand a proportion of shares of any publicly traded company, and some equivalent for the larger non publicly traded companies, and distribute dividends directly.

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    1 year ago

    If literally everything is automated, money itself is worthless and we should just automatically produce stuff for people. If most stuff is automated, UBI would work.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    “Universal basic income” is a lie. It should be a crime to lie to people who are struggling.