Ecological Economics, Basic Universal Income, AI and Robotics

 I saw an interesting article on the pace of AI job dislocation and the need for Universal basic income here; https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5713876-ai-displacement-and-ubi/

  I've written about the need for Universal basic income and ecological economic transition for some years; with additional ideas about a need to change to ecological economics and to bring democracy in so people can vote on what sort of no net loss of ecosphere and entropy increase minimizing production businesses they want to allow to be capitalized.

One would need a cap on individual capital assets in order to keep democracy effective for wealth has political power with it. Yet society could vote for public capital to be allocated to business ventures to scale up proven models when they integrate well into overall social land-use and economic structures.

It is questionable if human workers will be needed for any jobs within ten or twenty years, and the ecosphere will need recovery from the economic maladjustments that have trimmed its health the last couple of centuries with pre-ecological economic knowledge methods. Voters may choose to elect representatives to manage AI created ecological economic planning and business models to actualize.

The form of an economic system that is created and operated by AI and robots may be separable, with sobriety, from democracy and the question of government management of the economy through the choices voters choose in their state and nation to field with AI, robots and natural resources. International relations to allocate resources to various business developments operated by AI and robots will be important- the asymmetric distribution of natural resources will mean that the standard of living in some nations and states may tend to depend upon their natural resources and the surplus value more efficient ecologically sustainable economic planning operated by A.I. may be able to create.

If there is a lot of efficiency such that export surpluses may be created without significant economic harm to sustainability then even resource poor nations may experience a substantial rise in their standard of living simply from a principle of sharing excess wealth.

An advanced peaceful civilization’s economy operated by A.I. and robotics may not be said to be capitalist or socialist antinomies; those terms tend more toward anachronism when an advanced ecological economic social structure and political economy become necessity and actually become a natural function of the environment people inhabit.

A.I., The Merit System and Universal Basic Income

 I wonder if people misunderstand the implications of a 'merit' based culture? People that produce good product as entrepreneurs have 'merit'. Those that make bad product don't- or that's how it should be. Other values take over though, as if so many serve the interests of what others with capital want, rather than being primary producers. My point is that the only true merit system is transactional directly with product; if work is being exchanged, or employment is being compensated for with money, some time of objective ergonomic system would need to be in effect, and unfortunately that really can't work in a modern society. That is someone shovels, for example ten tons of dirt at ten dollars a ton they get 100 dollars while the guy that shoveled five tons got 50 dollars. Market values, illegal drug sales, illegal labor, entertainment industry and a zillion other things undermine the paradigm of merit. Merit at any rate means someone else sets the value of another's work. That alienates an individual from being a primary producer for-himself. In modern society it is regarded as work only when someone else pays you for it- whatever it is. That is why whores are said to be working in the sex industry.

Aesthetic values are meritorious through natural selection (i.e. handsome, large boobs)? Fundamentally that is a modern corruption of social being. Maybe that will be rectified in an ironic way when AI and robots make everyone obsolete and living on a government issued basic income. AI is the great Marxist Utopian revolutionary vanguard for the Brave New Skynet Matrix World.