Economic collapse is the means to their UBI goal. They also need people that accept a lower standard of living. "Luckily" (for them) Europe, US and Canada have a plethora of immigration and a generation of servants to deliver their food, valet their cars, etc. Don't need the middle or upper middle to develop things anymore

From here, AI can be used by humans to advance discovery, but remember the discovery is curated so that it's mostly just releasing new forms of weapons, like veganism, and cancer treatments on us. real discovery is not permitted anyway. Like exploring past the 60th south and over the ice wall, AI can do it, but nooooo. And no works on discovering how to balance boyant forces with frequency, or we could all fly with low energy expenditure. Etc etc. ya, this place isn't what we are all told and most of us still believe.

AI is profitable for the short term and the even more for the long term, because it will be wealth gap larger realitive to a poorer population on UBI. Entrepreneurship opportunity is always the way up, and will be easier for non screen addicts, raised by ambitious outside the box thinkers. Everyone else is pretty much fuct