AI, UBI, and the surveillance state

American Thinker ^ | 8 Nov, 2025 | Milli Sands

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the economy, boosting productivity while simultaneously threatening widespread job displacement. As AI progresses, a growing number of workers face unemployment or precarious employment, fueling political pressure for Universal Basic Income (UBI)—typically understood as unconditional payments aiming to guarantee a basic standard of living.

However, behind this policy response lies a fundamental truth: income provided by UBI is redistributed wealth, funded predominantly by taxing others. Taken to its fullest extent, this scenario envisions UBI becoming the total income for many individuals, fundamentally transforming the economy’s reliance from earned wages toward government transfers.

Traditional UBI proponents emphasize unconditional, unrestricted payments that uphold dignity and autonomy by letting recipients decide how to allocate funds. Yet, as more recipients rely entirely on UBI, governments develop incentives to condition or control spending to ensure funds are used “appropriately” on essentials like food, housing, or healthcare. This urge shifts UBI away from unconditional cash to a conditional benefit—introducing a powerful mechanism for centralized control.

This shift often involves digital platforms and payment channels that tie disbursement to monitored transactions. Here lies the connection to Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). CBDCs are digital currencies issued by central banks with features that allow:

Real-time monitoring of every transaction, Restriction of spending categories, and Immediate freezing or withdrawal of funds on policy breaches. Together, conditional UBI schemes and CBDCs form comprehensive financial surveillance infrastructures, akin to models already tested worldwide. This emerging economic governance framework could severely limit financial autonomy, erode privacy, and enable government-imposed behavioral controls dictating permissible expenditures.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: cbdc; centralbank; control; digitalcurrency; globalism; globalists; leftism; monitoring; tyranny

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Here is a numbering system invented by human reasoning. Does work, but no addition, subtraction, multiplying, or dividing with it.

Invented by Romans, the symbols for numerals using the alphabet (used also to code sound):

I = one
V = five
X = ten
L = fifty
C = one hundred
D = five hundred
M = one thousand

There you see what the number of (a) man, or man's number, does with six hundred sixty six, embodying one each of the numerals that can dive a quantity up to nine hundred ninety nine:

DCLXVI

There you see, a numbering system devised by mankind! The one used by the enemy of Blessed John, who wrote the Apocalypse, the words inspired by the Holy Geist:

And you also see it on the back of every US dollar bill:

MDCCLXXVI

Underthe All-Seeing Eye, also devised by men, the Freemasons.

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(DCLXVI)

Yep

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