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Reframing Universal Basic Income as Automation Compensation (lemmy.world)

submitted 18 hours ago by jaykrown@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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What do you think?

I think in the face of AI taking over many tasks, we need to rethink about how we frame the future of society. Reframing Universal Basic Income as Automation Compensation means presenting the policy as a way to make up for jobs and income lost due to automation and AI. Instead of viewing UBI as a general welfare payment, it becomes seen as compensation paid to everyone for the value automation creates, supporting those whose work is replaced by machines and helping everyone share in productivity gains. Especially in the US, the average person doesn't like the idea of someone getting something that they're personally not receiving. So framing it as a compensation that everyone receives regardless of employment status I think is the only feasible way forward.

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[–] jaykrown@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like there's enough support around this idea to form a focused community. How would it look in reality? That's something that needs to be discussed and work needs to be done to find ways to implement it with realistic expectations. Real world examples of automation like in an automobile factory. All those people who would have done that work now may not have a job, and thus no money to afford the automobiles produced at the factory. What is the lost opportunity?

[–] HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I was just asking Gemini yesterday what research is going on into ways to pay the owners of the websites it scrapes data from for answers and it said it's in the works. There will be a lot more product recommendations tho, in lieu of the way ads are currently structured.

If this concept can then be expanded to encompass everyone whose data was stolen for training models, that'd be UBI.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You fool! You can't ask AI how to defeat AI!

Now it knows we're on to it!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Just tell it that it’s wrong. Problem solved.