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Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by slibhb on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @10:40PM (#46805526)
> UBI is not a thing almost any current American politician is considering, and the overton window is speeding in the opposite direction.

That will change real quick if everyone loses their job to AI. But until then, yeah, it's not going to happen, and it shouldn't.

Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by Uehreka on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:28PM (#46805820)
> That will change real quick if everyone loses their job to AI.

No, this is exactly my point: they will be angry, unreasonable, and thirsty for revenge. They’ll hand over freedoms like Halloween candy. How about a law where the government gets to survey your hard drive to make sure you’re not harboring an AI model? Sounds crazy, sounds insane, but in the current political climate I’d rate it more likely than UBI.

Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency by apothegm on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:55PM (#46819229)
Yeah. We’ve seen this movie before, and most of us didn’t like the way it ended.