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You mean for the machine's labour - progressively more and more as more and more is automated, and where people with their UBI are paying into the system (consumers aren't a fuel leak, they're the largest cog in the wheel) and workers will be getting paid adequately on top of the UBI they'll be getting too?

A concept missed by most is that the buying power of "$1,000"/month grows exponentially as more and more gets automated.



> You mean for the machine's labour - progressively more and more as more and more is automated

How do you propose to finance UBI? All proposals that I've seen assume middle class to pay (for example, "everyone pays percentage of their income and then everyone gets fixed amount of money at the end of the period"), not nebulous machine-automation overlords.

> A concept missed by most is that the buying power of "$1,000"/month grows exponentially as more and more gets automated.

I don't observe housing getting exponentially cheaper "as more and more gets automated". In fact, I believe landlords would capture non-trivial amount of any potential UBI program.




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