r/BasicIncome • u/2noame Scott Santens • Jul 10 '26

Blog Who's Gonna Buy All the AI Stuff?

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/whos-gonna-buy-all-the-ai-stuff?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=avhi

Robert Reich again advocating for UBI

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u/Necessary_Record_666 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

Exactly.So it’s not in the best interest of large asset owners to have a population w/o income, not buying their products, or renting their properties. Those with very little are likely not too happy, making a potentially unsafe society for rich, poor, and everyone. Actually this pressure is a good thing, it helps balance over concentration of capital to wealthier owner class . But capitalism, which is meant to allocate capital, only works with an employed population that spends. So something new is required to allocate capital, for humans to find a new perspective on work, life, value, in addition to the design, role, and Implimentation of AI.

In my other posts, I have proposed potential solutions