What do you think?

I think in the face of AI taking over many tasks, we need to rethink about how we frame the future of society. Reframing Universal Basic Income as Automation Compensation means presenting the policy as a way to make up for jobs and income lost due to automation and AI. Instead of viewing UBI as a general welfare payment, it becomes seen as compensation paid to everyone for the value automation creates, supporting those whose work is replaced by machines and helping everyone share in productivity gains. Especially in the US, the average person doesn’t like the idea of someone getting something that they’re personally not receiving. So framing it as a compensation that everyone receives regardless of employment status I think is the only feasible way forward.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    9 hours ago

    Especially in the US, the average person doesn’t like the idea of someone getting something that they’re personally not receiving. So framing it as a compensation that everyone receives regardless of employment status I think is the only feasible way forward.

    Universal basic income is supposed to be irrespective of employment status already. That’s what the “Universal” bit means.

    Any work that you do you get compensated on top of UBI, that way it allows for things like working half the week and using UBI to top up your finances, companies could employ you two and a half days a week and another person the other two and a half days a week with each person getting a week’s worth of pay thanks to UBI, the company doesn’t have to pay out anymore, you get the same amount of money as you did before and you’ve increased the job market by 200 times. It’s a win-win-win situation.

    The problem is framing UBI as a welfare benefit, when really that’s not how it’s supposed to be understood.