Blaise Aguera y Arcas reviews 'The Guarantee': rethinking UBI for the AI automation era
blaiseaguera · x · 2026-10-22
Blaise Aguera y Arcas reviews Natalie Foster's The Guarantee, on universal basic income and related policies in the context of automation and accelerating returns to capital.
His position: as societies grow wealthier, an expanding set of services should become common goods — clean water and schooling are settled, while free community college and Australia-style deferred tuition are live experiments. A reasoned take on economic guarantees as AI accelerates automation.
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