I would rather avoid watching or hearing people saying those things in real life. One can't help but live by cultural myths. There's value in those myths but I learned science. Since then I became a rabid dog that attacks what I can prove false. The same tends to happen with bad economic ideas by people who like science, like the UBI. I can't help it.
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What's wrong with UBI, in a future where most or all labor is performed by robots? UBI would then just be a token/rationing system entitling people to have the robots make them a certain amount of stuff they want per month.
The computation for UBI is based on an index of automation. It's something similar to what happens with oil dividends in oil rich countries, with similar problems to this countries economies. In the beginning, you would probably have a lot of development in the population. I think the experiment of Hawaii is gonna be successful in the middle term and many other places will implement it.
To make a long story short, as technology and rationality increase the incentives for irrational behavior also increase geometrically, leading to the expansion of the prisoner's dilemma into a Keynesian beauty contest.
This is secondary to a denial or forgetfulness of 3 problems with technology as seen from mathematical game theory.
There are alternatives or complements to UBI, like self-sufficient automation or economic gamification. UBI on its own it's extremely naive mathematically speaking.
If by 'on its own' you mean in the absence of mature and widespread automation, I would agree.
No, even with fully spread automation is naive. If you have half the population without the cognitive skills to even interact with the technology the same problem arises. The real problem is how you keep people useful in a world that no longer needs them. The answer according to game theory is technological handicaps. Anatole Rapoport's approach to automation.
Why do people need to be "useful"?
They don't need to, but if they are not they disappear. Just like when an embryo is aborted because of a disease.
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That is a view I can't get onboard with. I like people, warts and all. I don't think we should be building a civilization that views humans purely in terms of utility. The point of it should be to support human life and happiness.