The starting assumption

The premise everything else rests on. If this is wrong, the plan needs to change.

?New here? What LifeSystems is, in 30 seconds

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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Your turn

Is this the future we're heading toward? Too fast, too extreme, not extreme enough, or just wrong? Challenge the assumption here.

Artificial intelligence and robotics perform approximately 99% of economically necessary work: food, construction, energy, transportation, logistics, healthcare, education support, and administration.
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As a result, about 99% of people are unemployed. Not because they failed, but because machines do the jobs.
§A.2
Automated production makes basic goods and services dramatically cheaper. Costs approaching zero is a long-term scenario, not an established fact.
§A.3
In that world, a paycheck can no longer be how most people survive. Basic survival has to be decoupled from employment.
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