Those seem incompatible to me.

(UBI means Universal Basic Income, giving everyone a basic income, for free)

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[–] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Ignoring their ideas entirely, it's incredibly simple. There are two options.

  1. No ubi. Eventually AI automates all jobs, the 1% becomes virtually omnipotent, and everyone else dies.

  2. Ubi. Some of the profits earned by companies are funneled into the ubi system. As such, everyone has income. The economy booms, everyone thrives, and we reach post scarcity.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We've already reached post scarcity. Any current scarcity is manufactured.

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  • [+] -14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If you don't have funds to buy resources then that seems to be accurate scarcity no?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The point is that there is no actual scarcity as in "we don't have the resources". We do have the resources, they're just distributed in a way that is profoundly unfair.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's a matter of access, not whether a sufficient amount of resources exist.

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