JackHandy said:
I suspect when things start falling apart and the politicians and lobbyists see their own livelihoods threatened, we're going to see serious regulations. They're not going to pay people to get fat and die of strokes. In the US, they don't even want to pay for universal healthcare, for crying out loud. There is no way universal income is going to happen. |
In the far-right U.S? Sure, unless there is a shift in the political-economic views of the population, which a Great Depression like event might induce, and the shocks to the economy that successful AI brings will bring such events. In other developed economies? I don't think one can definitively say "there is no way universal income is going to happen." Most of these countries already have expansive job-seekers programs and other social safety nets, and over time that can easily evolve into income subsidization even when working sporadically, and then eventually into a full blown UBI. A few European countries, Spain as a more prominent example, already have unemployment rates in the high-single and low double digits.
