{"id":92809,"date":"2019-06-28T08:02:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-trouble-comes-when-ubi-is-used-as-a-way-of-merely-making-techno-capitalism-more-tolerable-for"},"modified":"2019-06-28T08:02:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T15:02:45","slug":"the-trouble-comes-when-ubi-is-used-as-a-way-of-merely-making-techno-capitalism-more-tolerable-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-trouble-comes-when-ubi-is-used-as-a-way-of-merely-making-techno-capitalism-more-tolerable-for","title":{"rendered":"the trouble comes when UBI is used as a way of merely making techno-capitalism more tolerable for\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, if something is universal, doesn\u2019t it mean that it will apply to everybody? If so, why are individual countries racing to experiment with UBI? (Sam Altman, chairman of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Y_Combinator_(company)\" class=\"\">Y Combinator<\/a> and co-chairman of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OpenAI\" class=\"\">OpenAI<\/a>, may be the exception to date but he is attempting that in a silo).<\/p>\n<p>To truly address the root causes of exploitation and inequality, why isn\u2019t the <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2Vi5R8D\" class=\"\">paradigm of \u2018I win, you lose\u2019 Nonsense<\/a> surfaced? Is that because you are so preoccupied with surviving\/getting ahead for yourself, you are not aware Business-as-usual is the water we swim in?<\/p>\n<p>Most countries don\u2019t even have a minimum wage but Silicon Valley technocrats like Bill Gate, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and others globally are universal basic income (UBI) advocates. To expedite the latest Business-as-usual gold rush, UBI could be an initial bait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, if something is universal, doesn\u2019t it mean that it will apply to everybody? If so, why are individual countries racing to experiment with UBI? (Sam Altman, chairman of Y Combinator and co-chairman of OpenAI, may be the exception to date but he is attempting that in a silo). To truly address the root causes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}