The Vacancy: Universal Basic Income in the Age of AI odf de graça baixar
por Scott Mollette
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Descrição do livro
The check is the easy part.
Artificial intelligence is coming for the work, and some form of universal basic income is coming whether we vote for it or not. The only question is whether it will be built well or badly. Drawing on forty years of Alaska’s oil dividend, the Cherokee casino payments that transformed a generation of children, Norway’s trillion-dollar discipline, and seventeen years living inside the world’s largest unconditional cash transfer system — the remittance economy of the Philippines — Scott A. Mollette makes the case that the money works. The evidence is stronger than the critics admit and messier than the cheerleaders claim, and this book shows all of it, including the findings that cut against its own argument.
But money solves only half the problem. A paycheck was never just income; it was structure, status, purpose, and a reason to get up on a Tuesday. No government program can issue those things, and every state that has tried has produced either a lie or a boot. What government can do is protect the conditions under which people build meaning for themselves — and then, in the most disciplined act any government has ever been asked to perform, stay out.
A U.S. Army veteran, filmmaker, and author of more than two dozen books, Mollette lays out a complete framework: a dividend funded by a royalty on AI computing power rather than workers’ wages, a constitutional fence that forbids the state from ever attaching conditions to it, legal shelter for the guilds, clubs, and small trades where purpose actually grows, and a rule that public money buys only machines that make people more capable, never less. Every chapter ends with the strongest case against itself.
This is not socialism. It is not utopia. It is the owner’s manual for the century’s defining windfall — written for readers who want the argument stress-tested, not sold.
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