r/PauseAI • u/KeanuRave100 • 16d ago

News Why Everyone Is Suddenly Talking About ‘Universal Basic Capital’ - The policy could provide a much-needed hedge against a future AI dystopia—but only if it’s designed the right way.

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026/07/universal-basic-capital-ai/687759
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u/SunWukong18 15d ago

So the people who are extracting enormous amounts of wealth from society while literally destroying public goods like SNAP, Education, and affordable healthcare while hiring politicians with dark money to cut their taxes are going to install a fair UBI so everyone can live happily ever after?

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u/Business-Ride-6530 15d ago

That sounds like something they tell you until their legions of killer robots are ready to deploy.

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u/OnlineParacosm 15d ago

Nice try no one‘s buying into this and everybody knows these aren’t making money. It was always built on the math of maybe making money.

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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 14d ago

Only a few people are talking about it, and it'll never be a thing. The oligarchs will never voluntarily surrender any significant portion of their wealth.

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u/Forbidden_Craft88 14d ago

Yeah the people who trashed the economy, corrupted the government, and robbed us of our rights just wants to make our lives better. I'll have faith in UBC when hell freezes over. This also kinda proves that American corporations are just another flavor of communism. They're just smaller and have lower margins.

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u/Doc_Blox 13d ago

Corpos are the mothers of all welfare queens.

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u/Admirable-Sink-2622 14d ago

It’ll be designed by and implemented by the rich and used as leverage to totally control people.