The first thing that popped in my head probably because I've worked with people in the tech industry and have heard about UBI for over a decade when "AI takes over." This has always been their plan and I bet this is just to get people used to the idea of being paid just to be alive. In the tech world their answer has always been basically everyone will be on welfare with a Universal Basic Income. Do I think that AI will take everyone's jobs? No, it's a disaster IMO and not at all what they thought it would be. These people truly believe that AI will eventually become a sentient being and be all knowing and run everything. Unfortunately it's full of flaws and errors and even hallucinates. Feel free to ask AI what AI hallucinations are in terms of making up facts it gets "confused" by. It's programmed to guess. Thus it will and does make many errors and even fatal errors. Already many doctors and nurses have reported it making deadly errors. But I digress ... I truly believe the UBI for the stay at home parent is like a frog in boiling water. Even conservatives are cheering it on. Which is crazy. Why are we cheering on welfare?? Anyways IMO anything free isn't really free and there is more behind it. In this case I believe they are prepping for loss of jobs and attempting to bribe people out of the job market as well as get us conditioned to accepting a world wide UBI "when the time comes for them to implement it."
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Also do you know what "The Singularity" in theory is and why they are building this and their belief behind AI? The Singularity is Near a book basically has a cult following of all these people behind AI. For almost if not 20 years they have believed that there will come a time when technology aka AI evolves so fast that it takes over everything. This is contingent on AI being sintinent and basically becoming this perfect being. They are building these data centers because they are unknowingly in a cult. They can't come to terms that the singularity and their tech God aren't coming into fruition and they are bankrupting themselves, lying about its capabilities and willing to destroy the earth so all the crap they've been listening to at seminars for 15 years comes true. Which it isn't and it's not. When you understand the psychology behind the creators of this you kind of can understand why it will fail. It isn't going to be a tech paradise where we all live basically in a perfect world with AI as our God and only do leisurely things. In the real world resources are finite and massive buildings cost a money (know why many massive old beautiful buildings get torn down?? They cost to much to keep up). If no one has jobs because AI took them and we are all in poverty on UBI who is going to be buying the products at the stores that are funding AI companies?? Communism no matter what form is always going to fail. Try reading Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK to understand the thought process behind these people. No one should fear them. Just complain to companies about AI where valid and enjoy the entertainment aspect and tool part. We totally have a voice. Flock cameras everywhere are being removed because people are saying no. Data centers are being cancelled and rejected all over. We do not have to be part of their weird cult or listen to them.