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I'm skeptical that Universal Basic Income can get rid of grinding poverty, since somehow humanity's 100-fold productivity increase (since the days of…

x Universal Basic Income and Poverty — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2024 Economics Moloch Poverty World Modeling Frontpage 363 Universal Basic Income and Poverty by Eliezer Yudkowsky 26th Jul 2024 11 min read 150 363 (Crossposted from Twitter ) I'm skeptical that Universal Basic Income can get rid of grinding poverty, since somehow humanity's 100-fold productivity increase (since the days of agriculture) didn't eliminate poverty. Some of my friends reply, "What do you mean, poverty is still around? 'Poor' people today, in Western countries, have a lot to legitimately be miserable about, don't g

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