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> I don’t want basic income. I want the ability to differentiate myself and earn more than others.

Universal basic income (UBI) does not mean everyone is fixed at the same income. It means everyone earns the same basic income, and on top of that - and without affecting that basic income - they can take a job or do whatever to earn more.

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Many people would have to do that, in fact, as someone has to pay the UBI for everyone.

In this new paradigm, that someone is labor done by machines and AI as stated in my original comment.

Walk me through the flow of money there.

A few people own a lot of automated machinery that hypothetically makes everything including procuring raw materials (farming, mining etc.). They make enormous amounts of money and the taxes they pay essentially pays for the entire populace. Alternatively the government owns the means of production. There’s a smaller secondary economy where new ideas are tested and eventually filter up to automated mass production if it’s good enough. It’s obviously a pipe dream but it could all happen very quickly if there is some kind of true AGI event.

So the people that made and operate the machines work, and the machines work, but no one else

Pretty much unless you want to work and in my opinion atleast 40% of people will want to.

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