Given that, the question becomes what happens in the intermediary period and whether that period will last very long.
You have to contend with my utility function in that period which prefers maximum leisure over Commissar Wilson’s Labor Corps. Either you let me have the machine that outcompetes everyone else for the things I want done and I don’t enter your CWLC or that thing I want done needs a human and I will exchange something I have to get what the other has and reinvent market economics the hard way on the black market if required.
Put simply, commissar, I don’t want to work or understand my economy so unless machines arrive in a blink and place you on the throne, the fact that you want that has no bearing on what will occur through the transition because there are more of me.
One of the cool things about the system design is there are only a few numbers you need to/can set:
- UBI level
- Short Placement Level
- State index vs market requirement ratio (this is the big one, essentially "how much do we trust crisis forecasters versus what the market thinks")
- A few other small ones that don't do much.
At no point except for one thing (which I explicitly said is so hard that probs you don't do it) can you favor one company over another. At most, you can favor one industry over another, but even then that is offset by the higher level ratio.
I think industry level collusion is the natural thing that arises from this with regulatory capture. But it’s fine. No need to be overly negative. I’ll leave it alone.