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.
UBI is just starting to break public consciousness it would be a shame to go back to square 1. I think the idea can be sold to people it just needs the right person.
How is reframing it back to square 1? It’s not like we’re resetting the idea. The idea of “compensation” is showing the aspect of UBI that makes sense to someone who doesn’t like the idea of “free income”.