What do you think?
I think in the face of AI taking over many tasks, we need to rethink about how we frame the future of society. Reframing Universal Basic Income as Automation Compensation means presenting the policy as a way to make up for jobs and income lost due to automation and AI. Instead of viewing UBI as a general welfare payment, it becomes seen as compensation paid to everyone for the value automation creates, supporting those whose work is replaced by machines and helping everyone share in productivity gains. Especially in the US, the average person doesn’t like the idea of someone getting something that they’re personally not receiving. So framing it as a compensation that everyone receives regardless of employment status I think is the only feasible way forward.
Yea I agree, but getting people behind the idea is difficult. Too many idiots nowadays would think “dividend” and “We The People” is communist or some stupid shit. The word “Compensation” would break through a lot of the idiots brainwashing and bring more people together as they see robots literally do the work that they could have done and been paid for.