Max LeibmanApr 12

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.

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If you expect corporations to be responsible for UBI then you've not understood what UBI is.
If corporations are responsible it would be CBI. This is Mastodon, so I assume most can work out what the C stands for.
For it to be UBI it has to come from the state, funded through taxes on those multimillion / bilion-aires & their corporations.
Make paying shareholders illegal, after all, the point of a shareholder should be, to support a new (or ongoing) business that the shareholders believe in, not the other way round as it is today.
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@Soldusty “If you expect corporations to be responsible for UBI then you've not understood what UBI is.”

You’ve not understood my post. Good day.
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Then please clarify as it's clearly not clear to everyone.
Maybe I've simply mid interpreted "AI boosters" 🤷 as they tend to be the corporations. Anything not to have to pay people to do the job.
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@Soldusty AI boosters are people who promote AI, whether they are selling it, covering it journalistically, or advocating it as enthusiasts. This is how virtually everyone uses the term. That they are often working in corporations doesn’t mean they couldn’t do otherwise (or that corporations themselves can’t work on social problems and lobby for government action—they do so all the time, just not usually in this sort pro-social direction).

I said nothing about corporations providing UBI, nor is that leap is not implied. You made a wildly bad-faith reading of my post in order to insult me, which I do not appreciate.
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@maxleibman
Just reread your posts & realise that I did completely misinterpret them.
I'm very sorry & clearly having a hard of thinking day.

Thank you for taking the time to explain, I can edit my list to point out that I'm a complete dunderhead or delete? Whichever you prefer.
Again, sorry for being the twat.

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@Soldusty Thank you, I appreciate the apology. You can leave them up or delete or edit as you see fit.