my ongoing confusion wrt UBI & "no one should be coerced to work by economic need" - feels like I'm missing something? https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1619734364702785537
@chronononono @FPallopides thing is, you need to backfill the labor that those ppl were doing in order to continue producing the goods & services to buy w UBI... I hope AI & robotics get us there but until they do I don't see how everyone can quit working and yet maintain current consumption patterns?
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Reply · Sep 23, 2021@AvianDentures It doesn't make sense to me how everyone could have access to basic goods and services without employing a labor force to produce those…Reply · Sep 23, 2021@AvianDentures (though if Bots can substitute for human labor it's a different story and I look forward to universal leisure)Reply · Mar 30, 2023@ctjlewis Imo we should wait n see, do some temporary payments to workers displaced by AI... bec imo it could go either way- we find new ways to use…Reply · Jan 28, 2022@MeiselZachary @mattparlmer My fear is that everyone else becomes superfluous and live a life of UBI leisure, but I'm coerced into continuing to work…