Author Rudy Rucker says bots doing your job might be a blessing, not a curse

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@anon61221983

We’ll get a bare minimum and it will come with a heap of restrictions.

Precisely. I’ll drop this here again for others who don’t understand how it will work.

Making sense of Basic Income proposals

In threads like these I like to envision the broken neoliberal implementation of UBI we’ll see in the U.S. (because if libertarians and conservatives are now being forced to talk about it, it’s inevitable): The UBI will be funded initially by eliminating all other welfare programmes, including a phase-out of Social Security as the Boomers die off. The monthly stipend will be around a base $1600 a month per citizen, adjusted for local cost of living. Minors get a reduced stipend (maybe 30% …