They’ll need a universal basic income to preserve enough genetic diversity so that the AI-owner elites don’t habsburg the human species to extinction. Neoliberal ideology, however, states that it is immoral for people to be given something for nothing, and granting all of humanity ownership of common wealth, and thus making the basic income a dividend, would set a dangerous precedent that could undermine the actual owners. As such, the humans kept alive in the name of genetic diversity will have to be put to useless makework.
They’ll need a universal basic income to preserve enough genetic diversity so that the AI-owner elites don’t habsburg the human species to extinction. Neoliberal ideology, however, states that it is immoral for people to be given something for nothing, and granting all of humanity ownership of common wealth, and thus making the basic income a dividend, would set a dangerous precedent that could undermine the actual owners. As such, the humans kept alive in the name of genetic diversity will have to be put to useless makework.