A program in Ireland can help us to understand what happens when Artificial Intelligence takes our jobs and leaves us little to hope. It paid 200 artists a basic income to do their work, relieving them of insecurity. With nationalized healthcare for all, and the guaranteed income they had little to worry about but their own creativity. Paid 325 Euros a week, the guaranteed income for artists program proved itself a resounding economic success, paying back into the economy far more than what was invested in it.
"Ireland demonstrated something more about a ground bass: economic insecurity doesn't just force workers out, it diminishes the overall creative economy. That matters enormously right now, because we are entering a period when a lot of people across a lot of industries are about to lose their job security."
What to do when Artificial Intelligence takes your job? Create! Make beautiful and useful things.
Make, fix and create...
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