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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/Logical_Welder3467 on 2025-04-13 23:19:24+00:00.
UBI is a safety net for people that lose their jobs/can’t work. What are people supposed to do if no one is hiring? What are people supposed to do when companies lay off their workforce so shareholders can make more profits at the end of the year?
Besides, UBI is the bare minimum to keep a person alive. No one is buying their fifth yacht with UBI money (usually that comes from corporate welfare money).
More to the point, what are people supposed to do when all labor is automated and the 1% own all the robots?
At one point I felt similar to the person above. Tho I felt ubi was a bribe. As if to day we get things are bad so here’s some cash instead of solutions. I’ve since changed my mind on the matter. We need to be able to provide for people not corporations.
All UBI proposals I’ve seen don’t get anywhere near what you’d need to live off, and even worse, it’s sometimes sold as a way to gut other social programs. We definitely need to do something if we really are going into a world where AI is taking jobs, but it needs to be something better (maybe just provide free housing, and other basic necessities if AI can provide us with unlimited stuff anyway?).
But the way things are going, the billionaires just want to make their own personal wealth grow and don’t think what would happen to the rest of us in the future they’re imagining.
Then they aren’t “UBI,” by definition. The “Basic” part means “enough to pay for basic necessities.”