YouCongress Polls

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. Verified source

Basic income is a real shot at utopia. Basic jobs takes that energy and idealism, and redirects it to perpetuate some of the worst parts of the current system. It’s better than nothing. But not by much. Verified source (2018)

Fiscal transparency. But state parasitism prefers fiscal opacity so that we are not aware of what they take from us. Unverified source

Prohibits the use of automated systems to make employment decisions unless there is a meaningful human review [...] prior to the final employment decision. Unverified source (2026)

I don't believe there'll be nearly as many new jobs created as it destroys, as it replaces. Unverified source (2025)

AI is thus a general-purpose technology that can automate work in virtually every occupation. It stands in contrast to other technologies such as computerisation and industrial robotics, which only allow a limited set of tasks to be automated by impl... more Unverified source (2023)

I don’t know exactly when it’ll come, I don’t know if it’ll be 2027. I think it’s plausible it could be longer than that. I don’t think it will be a whole bunch longer than that when AI systems are better than humans at almost everything. Better than... more Unverified source (2025)

I think the main reason there should be universal basic income is that it's very important to have a cash safetynet that is extensive and universal. Unverified source

“What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers,” he said. “It’s going to create massive unemployment and a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That’s not AI’s fau... more Unverified source (2025)

Automated decisions must be reviewed by a human, and workers must be given the right to appeal AI-driven decisions about [...] hiring and firing [...] Unverified source (2025)

It is a popular misconception to believe that technological development destroys jobs. The organization of work is a social matter. If, thanks to modern machines, we need less time to produce food and other goods, then that opens up attractive perspe... more Unverified source (2016)

This whole fear that technology will take away jobs is not right. It will create a different kind of job. Unverified source (2024)

It is the way in which the real cost of wages in Spain would truly be seen. Unverified source

UBI creates a new difference between those people who work and earn a living and those people who, for wathever reason, don't work but still earn a living. This is going to create two classes of people (...) and for me the big issue is why do that?. ... more Unverified source

the right economic policies would inaugurate an age of abundance. Unverified source (2024)