What would you do with your life if you didn’t have to work and lived on UBI?

[RyanEC]

Some think this is coming because of AI and automation taking all the jobs and future technology creating a world of abundance.

This may coincide with longevity and rejuvenation that would preserve or rejuvenate people to a youthful and vital state.

If this happens what would you do with your life.

[HawkPerception]

Honestly I do believe that's the society is going. Whether we see it or not in our lifetime is yet to be seen though.

AI can already beat lawyers in court. It can already be used to diagnose patients based on information given better than doctors. It can predict stocks better than the best stock marketers on the planet. Robots are taking warehouse job workers jobs. Restaurants and grocery stores are being fully automated.

I can go on and on, but the coming of an age of UBI or just a different system altogether is most likely going to happen.

I don't see it as a bad thing. It just means people will have the time to do the things they want in life and focus more so on their passions. It's not like people will ever be more attracted to obese people than fit and healthy people, so I doubt it'll ever turn into a Wall-E world where everyone is obese and watching screens all day. We'll still have the motivation of sex and relationships. We'll still want to travel the world, do art, write, kayak, camp, play sports... you name it.

It might actually be utopian. But with more technology, generally comes less privacy. There's always a trade off in every generation.

[TheSpaceGnome]

UBI isn't going to happen.

I look like my teen self in my late 30s, and I'm easily bored and need to keep busy with art, science, gaming, and work, its doing nothing that would stress me into aging.

AIs are a fad that will die out soon, either by a lack of user base, or law changes regarding privacy or job loss, or some kind of AI deletion software.

[jennifer_bloom]

I don’t have to work cause I have a trust fund and a rich boyfriend but I am trying to start a social education business. If it’s my money, I get to choose how it’s spent. If it’s their money, they choose how it’s spent.

[alice55]

play video game watch tv

[RyanEC]

Me to.
Here’s hoping.

Hi Alice how are you?
I hope you are well.

I was glad to see the results of the EU election in France.

[alice55]

Hi, i'm good and you :)
Nowadays I'm playing video game and watching the Euro football cup very interesting, summer is great because there's lots of sports to watch on tv.

Me too, I couldn't believe mu ear and eyes when I saw it, I didn't thought that one days this would happen though the most difficult is coming with the new election and not sure if we're gonna won again or not considering the amount of people hating LePen and would do everything to not see them become prime minister.
I'm not so sure we would be able to won another time but I hope we do. Maybe that would also stop macron from his nonsense of wanting to send troops to Ukraine.

[RyanEC]

I’m doing good.
I’m glad you’re well.
I’m getting used to living on my own and I have been doing deliveries for extra money.

Honestly I don’t watch sports as much but I can appreciate it.

I have faith in the future in Europe since young people are voting more right while here not so much.

[alice55]

I'm happy to hear you're well too :)
I like to watch it, I'm used to it I used to do it all summer with my father as a child because we wouldn't go anywhere because of the heat.
Yes, here young people are more and more right wing and conservative, they do the reverse of people before them who used to be extremely leftist.
It's weird it's not the same in America, honestly I think it's mainly because of Muslim immigration, their culture are so different from our own that it totally clash and do not work at all no matter how much the left like to try.

[RyanEC]

Thanks.

The last week it has been extremely hot here so I understand why you would want to stay inside.

Hopefully the parliament election goes well.

[KostasKouvalis]

I had to google what UBI is. You Americans assuming everyone knows your acronyms.

Assuming it was feasible, my life would consist almost exclusively of travel and fucking.

[RyanEC]

Are Californians not Americans now?

[Anonymous]

i'd take the time to travel and see all the things I've only been able to see in pictures.

[Anonymous]

Keep working

Let's be realistic the elites will see UBI and realise bullets are cheaper

[goaded]

I'd do what I love, and get paid for it.

[goaded]

Or I'd do something mindless, like collecting rubbish, and get paid for that.

What I wouldn't do, is starve.

[NathanDavis]

what's a UBI?

[RyanEC]

Universal basic income.
Money the government gives people because there are no more jobs.

[NathanDavis]

I don't want none of that

no such thing in Mexico like "free money"