Back-of-envelope estimate: US would need 70 million humanoid robots to fund livable-wage UBI
Competitive_Travel16 · reddit · 2026-10-05
A Redditor used a ChatGPT-backed calculation to estimate the US would need to deploy roughly 70 million general-purpose humanoid robots to make UBI viable at a living wage without inflation. A rough thought experiment rather than rigorous research, but a useful conversation starter on automation and UBI.
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