Let’s call #UBI what it really is: a payoff to hedge against the extortative threat of mass violence as people increasingly lose their jobs to #automation, and are unable to re-enter an increasingly competitive human job market.
But what behaviors will society demand in return?
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Replying to @MattPirkowski
I think your 1st point answers your 2nd. Employment has always acted as a kind of social sedative, keeping people in line, preventing them from smashing shit up. With work gone, money itself will become the sedative, by encouraging enterprise, expression, & above all consumerism.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal
Agreed, though I think what I was trying to get at with the concluding question was more along the lines of: Given your conclusion, it would seem that a large temptation will emerge to connect people’s behaviors to differential UBI payouts. Seems a lot like China’s cit. scores.
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Replying to @MattPirkowski @G_S_Bhogal
And so, my current hypothesis is that given some kind of evolution toward these citizen scores will emerge, I’d rather have them calculated by a decentralized value network, a la crypto, than any state actor.
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Replying to @MattPirkowski
This is an interesting point. There will of course end up being a hierarchy; there always is. I could see most of the machine-labour's surplus value going to the designers/maintainers of the machines. They would, after all, play the most crucial roles in any machine-based society
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Money is a function of someone's worth to society - of how irreplaceable they are. And I think there's no reason why this system won't endure under a workless society. People will make their own work, and those whose work most benefits society will earn the lion's share.
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