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techy098 t1_jds68la wrote

I have no idea why people think UBI is inevitable. Elites do not like to give free stuff to the poor.

Most likely wages will go lower and most of us will be working in manufacturing and farming since white collar jobs are much cheaper to automate using AI than robotics needed to automate manufacturing.

In fact my hunch is: investment in robotics will go down once labor become more cheap and factories prefer using cheap humans.

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dwarfarchist9001 t1_jdsiw1y wrote

>I have no idea why people think UBI is inevitable. Elites do not like to give free stuff to the poor.

Because either they give out UBI or there will be civil war when 90% of the population is starving in the streets there is no third option.

>In fact my hunch is: investment in robotics will go down once labor become more cheap and factories prefer using cheap humans.

AGI will make the cost of robotics go nearly to zero as it solves all of the engineering hurdles for us.

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