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Because hackers tend to believe in the idea that automation and advanced AI causes a reduction of jobs and the destruction of middle class. This leads to a lot of rich people who control the AI and robots and a lot of poor who can't find jobs.

To counteract this, Basic income is a good idea because it allows for low risk job switching, furthering education and a small bureaucracy but extensive social safety net.

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Some say UBI has no connection to technology. It is just about eliminating welfare administrative costs and making people contribute to their communities in other ways.

am pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli uendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses.

Exactly. Most hackers are in the middle class. Hence, whether you'll get basic income or not, you'll still move in the low class then, won't you?

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