David Patterson predicts AI will replace all human jobs by 2030, calls for taxing businesses to fund universal high income
davidpattersonx · x · 2026-10-10
X user davidpattersonx predicts that superintelligence and robots will replace all human jobs by 2030. He argues governments will need to replace wages by taxing businesses and paying a universal high income (UHI) to everyone who becomes unemployed — a far more aggressive timeline than mainstream forecasts, directly tying AGI-driven job displacement to UBI-style welfare policy.
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