• chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    UBI is a thought terminating cliché. It’s meant to put off the question of what the hell is gonna happen when labor isn’t needed until it’s too late for labor to be able to do anything about it.

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        1 day ago

        Therein lies the irrationality of it. I imagine they think pumping endless amounts of money into AI research will eventually make it self-sustainable and create means of suppression for them to use on the working class, but it’s based on delusional hope more than anything if not entirely. It’s likely they’ll end up finding that out the hard way.