Alternatively (or additionally), we should all support a (livavble) universal basic income funded from corporate profits. If an AI takes my job, make my (former) employer pay me anyway. If there is (almost) no work to be done by humans anymore, work should no longer be necessary to live.
But if we look at how rise in productivity no longer raises salaries, it’s easy to guess what would happen if we’d get AGI: the profits go to the rich and the poor have to fight for themselves.
Would the 1% care if most of us loose everything? If you truly don’t know the answer, here’s a hint:
The super rich built luxurious bunkers instead of fighting climate change.
The only thing to get us to UBI is a massive revolution against the ultra rich and the politicians they bought.
We are already past the point where our resources are enough for everyone to have their basic needs met: Food, shelter and healthcare for everyone, and then some.
The reason we don’t live in an utopia is that the system is rigged to make rich people richer and everyone else poorer. There is enough money for everyone, it’s just unfairly distributed.
The hope that the rich will change their modus operandi, just because more people suffer is naïve.
Alternatively (or additionally), we should all support a (livavble) universal basic income funded from corporate profits. If an AI takes my job, make my (former) employer pay me anyway. If there is (almost) no work to be done by humans anymore, work should no longer be necessary to live.
True. Productivity would rise enormously.
But if we look at how rise in productivity no longer raises salaries, it’s easy to guess what would happen if we’d get AGI: the profits go to the rich and the poor have to fight for themselves.
Would the 1% care if most of us loose everything? If you truly don’t know the answer, here’s a hint:
The super rich built luxurious bunkers instead of fighting climate change.
The only thing to get us to UBI is a massive revolution against the ultra rich and the politicians they bought.
We are already past the point where our resources are enough for everyone to have their basic needs met: Food, shelter and healthcare for everyone, and then some.
The reason we don’t live in an utopia is that the system is rigged to make rich people richer and everyone else poorer. There is enough money for everyone, it’s just unfairly distributed.
The hope that the rich will change their modus operandi, just because more people suffer is naïve.