If AI can do everything and gets everyone out of jobs, who is going to consume the ‘everything’ produced by AI for someone to pay for the AI?
I don’t think UBI is a real solution, it’s too hand wavy.
The obvious solution is an AI consumer, duuuuh!
The dollar must flow. The dollar is life.
A: The reason it all works is <waves hands>.
B: I have no idea what <waves hands> means.
A: Exactly.
Same thing that happened when automatic threshing machines replaced 80% of agricultural labour.
Not everything - Many things.
Not everyone - Many ones.
The people who cannot compete fade out, and the ones that are left reap the benefit of the machines. Just like one farmer reaps the benefit of a tractor that replaced 20 laborers.
The earth population keeps reducing until it is kinda a vacation resort for 100 billionaires + others who work for them + machines.
Then some politician who promises to be a voice for the people uses force/army to kick the billionaires out, redistribute the wealth, and then the population increases and the cycle continues.
This has been happening and will continue to happen until the heat death of the universe. (and then repeat after it gets created again).
That's not even close to true. Basically every study on UBI, everywhere, has shown that either more people work, or employment stays about the same, but in each case happiness and health go up vs the control.
Since it's very clear you haven't researched your claim whatsoever - why are you making it? Why would you say something so wrong with so much confidence?
If we have the technological means and capability to reduce employment to 10% - why wouldn't we?
Is it so impossible to imagine a world where people only work when they want to? Where the jobs that "no one would do if they weren't desperate" just pay very well instead?
Also, if you really think every UBI study is fundamentally flawed, feel free to design and run your own. Until then, maybe you could do better than waving a hand and invoking a hypothesis to try and invalidate literally every study that speaks against your claim, lol.
> Also, if you really think every UBI study is fundamentally flawed, feel free to design and run your own.
All temporary studies are fundamentally flawed, because people act based on their permanent lifetime income. It's not like I can design it better, it's just not something that can easily be studied (on any reasonable time scale).