littlemacha

I could never subscribe to such a dystopian outlook of the future. Sure, we could augment ourselves with tech, but that will not ultimately stop things like automation in transport. Millions of jobs are set to be made redundant and there is no clear replacement for them. No amount of tech augmentation to ourselves is going to fix that. More importantly, we are still trying to understand what a majority of humans would do if their basic needs were cared for. That's the purpose of studies like this. Humanity has never truly broken free of its evolutionary bond to fighting for the resources it needs to survive, it just changed what resources it fights over. This is truly uncharted territory and UBI is currently the only viable idea on the table to deal with it.

Given the inevitable rise of autonomy and the move away from labour being necessary to produce goods and services, what would you have us do then? If we reach a point where we automate more jobs than can be replaced, we either face rampant poverty or we have to move to a system like UBI. It's certainly socialism adjacent, but I wouldn't consider it Soviet style communism.