Interesting that UBI is now such a mainstream topic, and this trend will only grow from now on.
Despite what Mr. Sacks might say, the day is still coming when robots & AI will be able to do most work, and be so cheap as employees, humans won’t be able to compete against them in a free market economy.
What won’t change either is that our existing financial order - stocks, 410ks, property prices, taxes that pay for a military - is predicated on humans being the ones that earn the money.
Mr Sacks is part of a political force driven by blue-collar discontent with globalization. He might be against UBI, but the day is coming when his base may be clamoring for it.
Trump’s AI czar says UBI-style cash payments are ‘not going to happen’
He’d better think again, because if most people lose their jobs and can’t put food on the table, they’ll reach for the pitchforks. And then the smug psychopathic kleptocrats who make those statements will wish they had implemented UBI just before getting whacked.
Nah, they’ll never have that realization. At least most of them won’t. They’re too dense and prideful of their own hateful dogma.
I think you’re mostly right about these people most of the time, but I also think the sensation of being put in The Peeler will make a believer of anyone