Opinion: Degrees Will Be Worthless as AI Takes All Jobs, Ubi Solves Debt
davidpattersonx · x · 2026-08-16
David Patterson predicts that university degrees will soon be worthless but suggests that Universal High Income (UHI) will make student debt easy to repay. He argues that while people can still attend school and take on debt, there will be no jobs upon graduation because AI will be better at everything.
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