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UBI–EUBI–UOR: a bridge for crossing the AI era without leaving anyone behind.
We do not know whether artificial intelligence and robots will replace a large share of human work in a few years or over many decades. But waiting until the problem becomes a crisis would be a dangerous choice.
We need to build in advance a bridge capable of preventing a chaotic transition — a kind of “Mad Max” scenario marked by unemployment, concentration of wealth, insecurity, and millions of people treated as economically disposable.
That bridge can be organized around the UBI–EUBI–UOR axis.
UBI — Universal Basic Income
Basic income should be a universal right of citizenship, received individually from birth. It should be permanent, unconditional, and never withdrawable.
No one would need to prove poverty, employability, productivity, good behavior, or educational performance in order to keep that right. Because its implementation will be universal and definitive, it may need to begin at a modest level, rising as automated productivity and the real capacity of the economy grow.
EUBI — Educational Universal Basic Income
UBI secures the floor. EUBI offers paths of growth.
Those who take serious part in activities of learning, research, creation, care, professional practice, or community contribution may receive additional and differentiated remuneration.
EUBI should stimulate effort, progress, discipline, and excellence. But there is a boundary that must never be crossed: success or failure at this stage will never withdraw UBI.
Excellence deserves additional recognition; dignity does not depend on excellence.
EUBI will not be merely a set of courses. It will be a permanent educational system in which people are paid to learn, practice, develop projects, and expand their capabilities throughout life.
UOR — Universal Operational Readiness
EUBI and UOR will form a continuum. EUBI will provide the means; UOR will represent the growth of the capacity to understand, decide, create, cooperate, and act.
UOR should not be a score used to monitor or exclude. Low readiness should trigger more support, never the loss of rights.
Even in a society of abundance, we should not replace compulsory work with a permanent obligation to perform. Leisure, travel, companionship, contemplation, and rest are legitimate parts of a good life.
The aim is to combine generous free time with always-open opportunities for learning, creation, and participation.
The post-work future, if it comes, should not be post-learning, post-purpose, or post-human agency. And even if traditional employment does not disappear, the axis will remain valuable for facing career changes, crises, and inequalities.
The core idea can be summarized as follows:
UBI is the right that is never lost.
EUBI is the demanding opportunity that can always be taken up again.
UOR is the horizon of a humanity that does not surrender its agency to machines.
Read the full text to learn the proposed foundations, cautions, and mechanisms:
poutpoury.blogspot.com/2026/…
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #EUBI #UOR #ArtificialIntelligence #Automation #FutureOfWork #PostWorkSociety #PoutPourri
Critical Analysis of the Text "UBI–EUBI–UOR: A Social Contract to Cross the AI Era Without Leaving Anyone Behind"
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Mathematical Research: The Future?
An original and unprecedented conceptual framework, structured to model the integration of hierarchical systems, adaptive governance, and resource optimization in the era of AI co-authorship by Dr. Karl Petrič.
Replying to @MacrinePhD
In my opinion there is no threat, but mathematicians must change their ways of working, develop even better models, theories, etc., in partnership with AI/humanoid robots. This is essentially co-authorship. If they stick to the previous way of working, their fear is justified.
O Compromisso da IA pela Humanidade agora ultrapassou 1.000 signatários! Junte-se ao coro crescente de pessoas que apoiam um dividendo de IA e também àquelas que demonstram apoio genuíno à Renda Básica Universal por meio de compromissos para financiar organizações e projetos de RBU. Adicione seu nome em aipledgeforhumanity.org e deixe os outros saberem que você assinou e por quê.
The AI Pledge for Humanity has now surpassed 1,000 signers! Join the growing chorus of people supporting an AI dividend and also those showing genuine support for UBI by commitments to fund UBI orgs and projects.
Add your name at aipledgeforhumanity.org and let others know you signed it and why.

ALT Graphic for the AI Pledge for Humanity, dated October 2026, with large text announcing “1,000+ signers. Across 50+ countries.” Below: “AI was built from all of us. The AI dividend belongs to all of us.” Featured signers include Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Laureate in Economics; Andrew Yang, former presidential candidate; Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and Asana; and Guy Standing, co-founder of BIEN. Footer reads: “Add your name: aipledgeforhumanity.org” and “Income To Support All Foundation.”
Paying to Pretend to Work: The Rise of Fake Offices in China and How Systems Like UBI-EUBI-UOR Can Change the Game.
Imagine paying out of your own pocket every single day just to sit at a desk, type into a laptop, and pretend you have a job.
In China, where youth unemployment remains stubbornly high, this has evolved from a bizarre social media trend into a sobering reality. Unemployed young adults and recent graduates are eagerly handing over daily fees to occupy "fake offices"—fully equipped workspaces complete with Wi-Fi, desks, and meeting rooms. Why? Simply to escape the suffocating isolation of staying home and to keep up appearances for friends, family, and themselves.
Key Takeaways: The Realities Behind the Trend
The Rise of "Fake" Offices: Co-working spaces mimicking corporate environments are popping up across major Chinese tech hubs like Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Dongguan. For a small daily fee (roughly 30 to 50 yuan), users gain a workspace, community, and internet access—trading real productivity for the illusion of employment.
Psychological Relief & Social Pressure: For many, the daily commute to a fake office helps maintain a healthy routine, wards off profound isolation, and acts as a shield against the heavy judgment or anxiety of family members asking, "Have you found a job yet?"
Academic Loopholes: In some instances, recent graduates utilize these faux-corporate setups to snap photos or secure pseudo-internship paperwork occasionally required by universities to officially release diplomas.
The Business of Dignity: Feiyu, the founder of a workspace service aptly named Pretend To Work, describes his venture not as a simple desk-rental business, but as "selling dignity." It’s a commercial band-aid keeping young people from feeling obsolete during difficult economic transitions.
The Role of UBI-EUBI-UOR
As global labor markets buckle under the combined pressures of rapid automation, economic restructuring, and hyper-competition, phenomena like fake offices highlight a much deeper systemic failure. The issue isn't a lack of ambition among the youth; it's a structural breakdown in how we support workforce transitions.
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O Papa Leão nomeou-se em homenagem ao papa que defendeu os trabalhadores durante a Revolução Industrial. Agora ele diz que os riscos da IA são reais e merecem barreiras de proteção. A barreira de proteção econômica que seu predecessor nomeou: RBU, Renda Básica Universal.
The end of poverty would imply the end of migratory crises.
What if ending extreme poverty could actually cost less than we think? New research from Columbia Business School estimates that targeted cash transfers of around $318 billion a year, just 0.3% of global GDP, could reduce global extreme poverty to about 1% zurl.co/ip0kP
Crise Migratória pode acabar se a pobreza acabar.
E se acabar com a pobreza extrema pudesse realmente custar menos do que pensamos? Nova pesquisa da Columbia Business School estima que transferências de dinheiro direcionadas de cerca de US$ 318 bilhões por ano, apenas 0,3% do PIB global, poderiam reduzir a pobreza extrema global para cerca de 1%.
What if ending extreme poverty could actually cost less than we think? New research from Columbia Business School estimates that targeted cash transfers of around $318 billion a year, just 0.3% of global GDP, could reduce global extreme poverty to about 1% zurl.co/ip0kP
Nada além de um dividendo universal mensal permanente jamais nos compensará por todo o nosso trabalho que contribuiu para o treinamento da IA. Não há como desfazer o que foi feito e nada focado apenas em um subconjunto da população é uma restituição apropriada. Todos nós deveríamos nos beneficiar — deslocados ou não.
Dinheiro justo para RBU. Taxando Externalidades da IA para Benefício Público.
Um imposto pigouviano é uma cobrança aplicada a uma atividade de mercado que gera externalidades negativas, que são os custos não intencionais suportados por terceiros não diretamente envolvidos na transação. Nomeado em homenagem ao economista britânico Arthur Pigou, o propósito desse imposto é corrigir ineficiências de mercado. Em um mercado livre, uma fábrica pode produzir bens baratos, mas poluir o ar local. Como a fábrica não paga pelo dano à saúde e ao meio ambiente que causa, o custo real do produto é artificialmente baixo. Um imposto pigouviano adiciona esse custo externo de volta ao preço de produção, forçando a empresa a "internalizar" a externalidade. Exemplos tradicionais incluem impostos sobre carbono em emissões, impostos sobre tabaco ou taxas sobre sacolas plásticas. O objetivo duplo é desestimular financeiramente o comportamento prejudicial, ao mesmo tempo em que gera receita pública para limpar ou compensar o dano. Quando aplicado a mudanças tecnológicas modernas, como o imposto pigouviano sobre automação mencionado na postagem que você está visualizando, o conceito trata o deslocamento generalizado de empregos como uma externalidade social negativa. Se uma empresa implanta agressivamente IA ou robótica para maximizar sua própria produtividade, a sociedade mais ampla absorve os choques socioeconômicos do desemprego repentino, perda de receita tributária e redução do poder de compra dos consumidores. Taxar a implantação de automação visa desacelerar o ritmo do deslocamento de mão de obra o suficiente para que a força de trabalho se adapte, enquanto captura uma porção dos ganhos massivos de produtividade. Essa receita capturada é frequentemente proposta como um mecanismo direto de financiamento para uma Renda Básica Universal (RBU) ou um "Dividendo de Deslocamento". Em um cenário econômico altamente automatizado e pós-trabalho, isso garante que os benefícios financeiros dos sistemas de IA hiperprodutivos sejam distribuídos aos cidadãos cujas vidas foram prejudicadas para criar essa eficiência. xitter.cf/BasicIncomeOrg/status/… xitter.cf/PoutPouri/status/20991… poutpoury.blogspot.com/2026/…
UBI–EUBI–UOR: a bridge for crossing the AI era without leaving anyone behind.
We do not know whether artificial intelligence and robots will replace a large share of human work in a few years or over many decades. But waiting until the problem becomes a crisis would be a dangerous choice.
We need to build in advance a bridge capable of preventing a chaotic transition — a kind of “Mad Max” scenario marked by unemployment, concentration of wealth, insecurity, and millions of people treated as economically disposable.
That bridge can be organized around the UBI–EUBI–UOR axis.
UBI — Universal Basic Income
Basic income should be a universal right of citizenship, received individually from birth. It should be permanent, unconditional, and never withdrawable.
No one would need to prove poverty, employability, productivity, good behavior, or educational performance in order to keep that right. Because its implementation will be universal and definitive, it may need to begin at a modest level, rising as automated productivity and the real capacity of the economy grow.
EUBI — Educational Universal Basic Income
UBI secures the floor. EUBI offers paths of growth.
Those who take serious part in activities of learning, research, creation, care, professional practice, or community contribution may receive additional and differentiated remuneration.
EUBI should stimulate effort, progress, discipline, and excellence. But there is a boundary that must never be crossed: success or failure at this stage will never withdraw UBI.
Excellence deserves additional recognition; dignity does not depend on excellence.
EUBI will not be merely a set of courses. It will be a permanent educational system in which people are paid to learn, practice, develop projects, and expand their capabilities throughout life.
UOR — Universal Operational Readiness
EUBI and UOR will form a continuum. EUBI will provide the means; UOR will represent the growth of the capacity to understand, decide, create, cooperate, and act.
UOR should not be a score used to monitor or exclude. Low readiness should trigger more support, never the loss of rights.
Even in a society of abundance, we should not replace compulsory work with a permanent obligation to perform. Leisure, travel, companionship, contemplation, and rest are legitimate parts of a good life.
The aim is to combine generous free time with always-open opportunities for learning, creation, and participation.
The post-work future, if it comes, should not be post-learning, post-purpose, or post-human agency. And even if traditional employment does not disappear, the axis will remain valuable for facing career changes, crises, and inequalities.
The core idea can be summarized as follows:
UBI is the right that is never lost.
EUBI is the demanding opportunity that can always be taken up again.
UOR is the horizon of a humanity that does not surrender its agency to machines.
Read the full text to learn the proposed foundations, cautions, and mechanisms:
poutpoury.blogspot.com/2026/…
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome #EUBI #UOR #ArtificialIntelligence #Automation #FutureOfWork #PostWorkSociety #PoutPourri


















