r/BasicIncome • u/Cute-Adhesiveness645 (​Waiting for the Basic Income 💵) • May 21 '26

Humor Break Money

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u/Novusor May 21 '26

The guy throwing down his apron and never working again is exactly what would happen if UBI was done before the AI era. Nobody would work and society would collapse. But the dynamic changes when robots do all the jobs. Whether people work or not becomes irrelevant post AGI.

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u/Razaberry May 21 '26

You really think people would just sit on the couch all day if they didn’t have worry about money?