When AI boosters talk about universal basic income to excuse all of the jobs they claim they can eliminate, ask:

“Then why are you working on AI, and not on universal basic income?”

If you are a journalist in this space and you don’t ask this every time UBI comes up, you are not doing your job.

@maxleibman also the concept that the state should be out of the way and minimal and at the same time it should subsidize everything they don't want to pay.