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LifeSystems is a proposal for how society could work once AI and robots do about 99% of the jobs, leaving most people without employment through no fault of their own.
- A basic income for everyone. Every eligible adult gets a tax-free monthly payment (UBI), job or no job. You can turn it off and back on whenever you like.
- Living packages from co-ops. Worker-owned cooperatives compete to offer affordable bundles of housing, food, healthcare and more, paid for with that income.
- Freedom stays. You can keep your home, run a business, earn more, or skip the whole system. It's a floor, not a ceiling.
- Funded by land. Mainly through a tax on land value, the one resource machines can't make more of.
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is a proposed social and economic framework for a future in which artificial intelligence and robotics perform approximately 99% of economically necessary work. Automated production makes basic goods and services dramatically cheaper; a , tax-free (UBI) guarantees every purchasing power; and competing, democratically governed offer . People retain the freedom to own homes, earn income, operate businesses, accumulate wealth, purchase services independently, , and resume UBI whenever they choose.
§0.1The central objective is not perfect equality or a world without setbacks. It is to remove involuntary economic deprivation and decouple basic survival from employment, so people can pursue relationships, creativity, learning, entrepreneurship, community service, and personal purpose.
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