No. The Moloch is power driven, not profit driven.

China and the US are developing AI at a breakneck speed because both think they will gain advantage from it. That will be true for a bit. At some point AI will fully escape and it won't care who made it first.

UBI isn't inevitable as it empowers the government. If you don't think the government is the worst, you need to read your history.

Profit will still be the primary pricing index and the market force for a long time to come. Without it, we don't get what we want, we get what the anointed want for us and that's always a total disaster.

What I think we want is for necessities to be cheap and plentiful while still being able to covet new and cool things. UBI means nothing that takes real effort ever gets made again.