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Re:A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income by JKCalhoun on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:21AM (#50325415)
"This is the only way we can possibly deal with mass unemployment."

That or something like the Public Works Administration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Works_Administration).

(And you get infrastructure out of it.)

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Re:A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income by e40 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:06AM (#50325828)
It’s probably not the same people, different skills.
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Re:A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income by JKCalhoun on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:24PM (#50328788)
If I'm unemployed, hungry—I'm pretty sure I'll be happy to swing a hammer, hang drywall…
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Re:A tiny Pacific country rolls out universal basic income by em-bee on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:59AM (#50326307)
how about retraining people to give them skills the world actually needs. education, healthcare, child and elderly care. art and entertainment.

also science, research. as much as LLMs are able to do here, they can't do everything. and even with LLMs the more people we have doing research the faster we can progress technologically and also socially.

the real question is, who is going to make these investments?

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