Thanks for the feedback—appreciated!
I agree. I’m sort of on a learning curve on how to write for online audiences. Specifically switching from exploratory research to a short narrative style and this probably should have been a much shorter post. (in my defense I have cut a lot, incl. overview tables of all prominent UBI proposals, UBI trials, and some of the main discussion points around UBI impacts).
The fact that financing UBI by taxing labor is not future-proof may be too obvious for LW—I am not sure it has arrived everywhere—some prominent UBI advocates still suggest it as the default funding mechanism.
Yes, I am writing a whole series on the AGI economy, so in some sense this is just the prelude to explain why saying “money is the solution to people not having money” doesn’t solve the challenge of getting the money. Texts on everything from robot tax, to sovereign wealth funds, to windfall clause, to OECD/G20 tax treaty, to pension funds, to global commons management will follow
Yes, I think you’re right. For context: I am writing on a general audience book so I need to close some inferential steps before getting to the more “juicy” stuff but I agree that on LW I could probably straight up post stuff like “A solar system commons trust is superior to the Outer Space Treaty and could help to fund a global UBI”