Whenever anyone talks about Universal Income it usually turns out to be like $1000 a month.
Hey, offer me $1000 a month and I won’t turn it down. But that amount won’t pay my mortgage. I can’t survive on $12,000 a year. So, a job is a necessity. If AI takes away a very large number of jobs (I think it will) then that’s a problem. And if “Universal Income” is a fix, then people need to start talking about much larger amounts.
And they aren’t.
if it does, it’s only because a large number of people are dependent on a very mechanized and mechanizable economy; such an end was baked in from the beginning.
Sad. Monasteries and agrarians will be OK, at least until they blot out the sun and the water turns to blood.