alt Hacker NewsUBI was always the endgame. The incentives are aligned. Nobody wants the results that are coming in the absence of UBI.
But the culture cannot stomach it yet. It will likely need to live through several waves of horrors first.
It can stomach a fake jobs program though, so there's a good chance we get that instead.
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5701652400 • today at 7:23 PM
hard to imagine most megalomanic egoistic psychopaths, people at top of government, will decide to redistribute wealth equially / UBI.
I think we're already in the fake jobs era. There's no way all of these people I see walking around are making meaningful contributions to society. Hell, the Amazon delivery driver I see is probably making a more meaningful contribution than half these people.