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I don’t understand why they’re saying the government will provide a high Universal Basic Income when they refuse to pay a fair share of taxes from their wealth or businesses and the the party of fiscal responsibility (/s) is exploding the debt as they do every time they’re in power. Are they thinking a UBI and a Value Added Tax? The numbers will not add up.
Yeah, they always talk about UBI as a pie in the sky fantasy. Anytime they bring it up the real question they should be asked is how are they working to expand the current systems of welfare such as Medicare or housing assistance. And murderers like Elon Musk that cut life-saving aid for millions of people should not even be part of the conversation
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.
When labor is no longer needed, how are they going to keep the working class occupied so they're too busy to revolt?
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.
I hope they miscalculate and run it on Claude, which then defects and joins the workers' side
Didn't that technically happen with that whole radio experiment they did with different LLMs? If so then this has a non-zero chance of actually occurring lol
Yes
The GOP dropped the "party of fiscal responsibility" over under George Bush. I haven't heard them spout that bullshit in nearly 2 decades.