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Should everyone get a basic income because of AI?

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I'll put my cards down: I think yes, and I think it's going to happen whether this thread likes it or not. The pilots, Finland, Stockton, the Kenyan one, found roughly the same thing: people given a floor mostly kept working, drank less than the critics predicted, and spent it on rent. The AI part is new. If a quarter of entry-level office work goes to software in a decade, and the numbers on junior hiring say it's started, then "get a job" stops being an answer for a lot of 22-year-olds. The question isn't whether we can afford it. It's whether we can afford the alternative. Change my mind.

— whitney.reads

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I'd draw for a living if I could afford to, and I'd make better coffee if I wasn't scared of the hours being cut. I don't think that's laziness. I think it's the thing everyone would say if they weren't embarrassed to.

— gia_offline_ish

I retired on a pension that my company paid into for forty years, and I have never once been asked whether I deserved it. I notice the young in this thread are being asked to deserve theirs in advance. I would give them the floor and ask later.