Many arguments regarding the current incarnation of ML and its mainstream uses go like this:<p>— It will take our jobs.<p>— That is not a failure of automation, it’s a failure of our socioeconomics.<p>— That doesn’t make it a non-issue. People need to eat and have a purpose.<p>— When it gets really bad, governments will use the immense productivity gains we get from this tech to institute UBI, and we will live happily ever after.<p>It is often difficult to provide a further counterpoint to that (except that it puts a little too much hope that future governments, after concentrating power and wealth, will be so benevolent), but that’s one way to put it:<p>> Billionaires love UBI for the same reason they love charter schools. In the AI UBI fantasy, everyone who's not a billionaire has been replaced with a chatbot, and our only job is to receive government vouchers that we hand over to billionaire grifters who run the institutions that used to be under democratic control.<p>It’s a bit harsh, but I suppose sometimes one might have to exaggerate to get the point across.