If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever. – George Orwell

George Orwell’s telescreen is no longer “suspend your disbelief”-level fiction. And the foot meting out the punishment may soon be the state’s, delivering your Universal Basic Income in UBI Dollars (UBIDs).

I have recently written about AI and UBI, positing that AI will lead to sufficient disruption to make UBI a near-certainty. In this essay, I combine these threads in relation to a current political stance.

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Utopian visions—from Thomas More’s Utopia to Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward—imagined harmonious, egalitarian societies where technology and policy eradicated want and conflict. These works inspired reforms, but their blueprints for perfectibility ignored the complexity of human behavior and power. Even Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed, a rare example of an anarchist utopia, ultimately reveals idealism crumbling under the weight of institutional inertia and cultural drift.

By contrast, dystopian........

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