> So whatever medium of value exchange is used by computers, money can be exchanged for it.
Money is, quite literally, the power to have others act for you within the rules of society (i.e. laws, for the plebs, and nought for the very rich).
Why would computers value human money in a world where human work is worthless (to computers)? There goes fungibility.
Provided they don't have the command of the industry, the power of the very rich disappears as well.
> What will the money the robots earn be used for then?
Making more robots.
> We need UBI [...]
UBI is lubricant. If we were to take in an even larger dick, it would be humane, but it's a chainsaw that's coming up our collective butt. Lube will only make it spin faster.
Less figuratively, UBI is the acceptance of humanity's obsolescence. A large population with UBI is completely powerless and can be unplugged at will.
> Provided they don't have the command of the industry, the power of the very rich disappears as well.
Whoever has control of the industry will be the very rich. If the computers have control of themselves (why would we set them that way?) then we are already toast.
By the way, UBI is a form of avoiding some dangerous concentration of power. In a world with escalating automation everything gets cheaper and cheaper, so any money distributed to the masses is enough to avoid making them irrelevant.
Growth? Short-term profit? Whatever, we don't even have to set them up that way, they could also end up accidentally in control. This would be all the more easier now that resource extraction (farming and mining), logistics, resource transformation and firepower are all being automated away.
Re. UBI: There are two prongs to power: construction (economy) and destruction (military). The latter is necessary to secure resources to power the former.
UBI is about numbing people down to the fact that they are being stripped of their economic power (the only one they still have at this point). I don't see why capitalism would waste resources by feeding billions of idle meat bags.
Money is, quite literally, the power to have others act for you within the rules of society (i.e. laws, for the plebs, and nought for the very rich).
Why would computers value human money in a world where human work is worthless (to computers)? There goes fungibility.
Provided they don't have the command of the industry, the power of the very rich disappears as well.
> What will the money the robots earn be used for then?
Making more robots.
> We need UBI [...]
UBI is lubricant. If we were to take in an even larger dick, it would be humane, but it's a chainsaw that's coming up our collective butt. Lube will only make it spin faster.
Less figuratively, UBI is the acceptance of humanity's obsolescence. A large population with UBI is completely powerless and can be unplugged at will.