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“Shaw Walters on AI and a Universal Basic Income” . This in-depth interview captures Shaw Walters, founder of ElizaOS, as a bold contrarian voice in the AI space, pushing back against the growing consensus that Universal Basic Income (UBI) is inevitable in an AI-driven future. Walters argues that UBI risks entrenching systemic inequality, politicization, and a deepening “crisis of meaning,” asserting instead that individual ownership—especially via crypto—offers a more empowering path forward. The sentiment is positive, with a critical eye toward top-down systems and an emphasis on decentralized, bottom-up solutions as a way to preserve human purpose, economic dignity, and resilience in the age of automation. https://substack.com/home/post/p-165862126

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But what if a UBI paid out in ETH, or BTC, or whatever your fav currency is.

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worldcoin is communism jk but seriously, my issue is-- where does the money come from? the liquidity under big airdrops is usually VC funds. cost of implementing $1k per man woman child (andrew yang plan) is $4T/year which is our budget

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I had an idea I started to vibe code but never got anywhere with. https://github.com/Ruzhyo04/GoerliFaucet Basically you take donations to a vault. Funds are locked into LP pools. The yield is harvested regularly, converted to ETH (or whatever currency you want), and distributed out to all addresses in a decentralized ID set, like Human Passport. Would start small, but free money would get people's attention even if it is a small amount. Could snowball into something big. Or at the very least, it might be a strategy for continuous revenue that others might use. For funding faucets, or self sustaining self executing contracts, or paying DAO members, idk.

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