Universal basic income is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive a minimum income in the form of an unconditional transfer payment, i.e., without a means test or need to perform work. In contrast, a guaranteed minimum income is paid only to those who do not already receive an income that is enough to live on. A UBI would be received independently of any other income. If the level is sufficient to meet a person’s basic needs (i.e., at or above the poverty line), it is considered a full basic income; if it is less than that amount, it is called a partial basic income.
Half of today’s jobs could vanish—Here’s how smart countries are future-proofing workers
Submitted 3 weeks ago by OneSpectra@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250622030429.htm
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merde@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s depressing that the US, which is pushing AI hard, is also dismantling the structures they would need to get a populace with the soft skills mentioned above. The destruction of “everything woke” equals the destruction of soft skills.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Except AI would break everything so just watch the digital fires that are about to get started. They already figured a method to put malicious code in AI crawlers.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
“Could”
Yeah and 100% of jobs “could” vanish if your mom is allowed to “roam free”
romantired@shibanu.app 3 weeks ago
This is a variant of modern natural selection: if you are stupid, you are doomed.
SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
You could also go the other way, if you are smart incapable of being efficient at me menial labour. You will go hungry, until such a time you are hungry enough to do the menial labour for very cheap.
Turning us into two distinctly separate classes, low educated low intelligence, and high intelligence, highly educated elites controlling swarms of smart AI
SunshineJogger@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Well, not quite.
There are plenty of jobs that require smart people which can be automated a lot.
Business analytics, legal stuff, etc.
They won’t kill the need for expert human minds yet, but the jobs will need significantly less people overall for the same work, which means less jobs in those areas, which then leads to less people being able to learn those jobs and we are headed towards elite humans VS most humans being struggling slave-consumers.
At least from a current perspective.
If universal income or such were a thing all those consumers could focus on creating and learning what they truly like, many turning into experts organically, most likely.
But no, society is too dumb and rigid to adapt to this reality without everything burning to the ground first
blargle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Vague hand-waving bullshit either written by an AI or the next writer to lose their job to one.
If and when AI is competent enough to replace 50% of the workforce, do you really think it is going to need an equal or greater number of people working full time at jObS tHaT hAvEn’T bEeN iNvEnTeD yET to manage it?
No. We’re going to feed the migrant workers to the gators and Generation Brainrot is going to spend the rest of their lives working in the fields and meat packing plants. The 0.1% will see line go up, and the rest of us will get Soylent Green before we get UBI.
Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
AI is already replacing significant parts of the technical workforce. The key is that it doesn’t have to successfully replace them. It just has to convince the sociopaths in the C-suites that they can pretend it will so they can layoff masses of employees. That will allow them to collect obscenely large bonuses, sell their stock at a huge profit, and move on to destroying the next round of businesses. Fortunately, the only people this will hurt are, well, us.