Then we should start planning now by stopping the notion that being a good, moral person includes earning a wage.
There are big political issues with achieving UBI. One of them is reversing that notion. I grew up in a poor family, one time, when my Mum was laid off I heard her lament that she didn't want to take unemployment because she wasn't one of 'those scroungers.'
I see unemployment from AI, if it happens, to be a slow burn. If we don't shift our attitudes towards it then we're going to be entering a new era of "Welfare queens" but without any meaningful work for people to actually do.
There are big political issues with achieving UBI. One of them is reversing that notion. I grew up in a poor family, one time, when my Mum was laid off I heard her lament that she didn't want to take unemployment because she wasn't one of 'those scroungers.'
I see unemployment from AI, if it happens, to be a slow burn. If we don't shift our attitudes towards it then we're going to be entering a new era of "Welfare queens" but without any meaningful work for people to actually do.