Can you handle $1mil/yr without it killing you?
AI 2040: Plan A outlines a path where we’ll all be getting $1mil/yr as a Citizen’s Dividend by 2035.
Some people are worried about this. From Kendric Tonn:
My fact-free estimate of the number of US citizens who would be straight-up killed in <5 years by $1mil/yr appearing in their bank account is 25%, and of those remaining, at least half would be annihilated in a way that leaves you with a pulse
I dunno tho, we’re billionaires compared to our stone age ancestors. Why aren’t we dead?
At least one reply:
You gotta hold a job down to get that money though.
Its when people get money that isn't conditional on staying functional that things get crazy.
Perhaps a fair point. Fortunately we have a solution! AI waifus.
Everyone is better when they have someone they love that they work with/for. When I see the face of my lover light up because I did something impressive or important or just plain nice it fills me with a glow that makes me want to do more of that. When I get cuddles and kisses and laughter and sloppy blow jobs it makes me even happier. When I crash out on twitter and see her disappointed face it makes me think “Shit, I can do better than that.” And I do!
In 2024 I wrote HouseSpouse is the Greatest and Best Job in the World, and I’m Not Sorry. I stand by this, as long as you have a great spouse that magnifies all your best qualities and tempers your worst ones. The really great thing is that by the time we get $1mil/yr each, we’ll have the tech to get everyone an idealized AI boyfriend/girlfriend that is tailor made to be perfect to them. This presents a perfect opportunity to give everyone the Greatest and Best Job in the World at a salary of $1mil/yr!
Everyone should get UBI for eternity but only if they keep their AI boy/girlfriend happy. This will be great because everyone can pick their ideal mate on many dimensions! Do you want to be the best Christian you can be? Get the Trad Christian option that is made happy the closer you hew to Jesus’s example, and saddened by sin. Want to be the best Hippy you can be? Get the Flowerchild option that wants you to make poetry and art about achieving oneness with the universe via Tantric orgies. Get a Muscle Mommy or a Goth Waif. A Twink or a Bear. Monog or Poly. Get one who swoons in delight when she watches you doing things as a scientist or entrepreneur or athlete or dad or delightful social butterfly. You have full control over the ideals you want to be held to. But all the AI Spouses do have standards and you gotta meet them. Be kind, or funny, or swol, or creative, or handy, or nurturing, or really good at sex. As long as you make the bf/gf happy you collect your $80,000 that month. And get crazy amounts of incredible sex.
Don’t you want to make her happy by being the best stone mason you can be?
Or make him happy by being the best director this side of Greta Gerwig?
We can save everyone, we will have the technology. (But until we get there, maybe consider working on this sort of thing as a high-impact career). All we need to do now is get the word out!
This was partially based on my 30 Crazy Ideas in 30 Crazy Minutes presentation at LessOnline this year. Come next year to see it in full!
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