Humans have always been used as Commodities. No matter for which movement, but at any given moment of time, Natural Persons’ are galvanized and valued, invested, divested, funded, call/put, proselytized, accordingly. Be it in the name of inclusivity, or against dictatorships, or for democracy, or for capitalism/communism/socialism/humanism (or against them), or for the religion right or left or center, or, for wars / against wars; at the end of the day, the way the price of any other commodity keeps increasing or decreasing; similarly, the price of any Natural Person is manipulated in terms of awards, grants, positions, family, kids, money! Academia made it worse!
Now, according to me, UBI might lead us to Mo(A)narchy as well. How? If this is executed under PPP (public private partnership), then leaders would become your queens and kings. If this is executed only as private, then leaders would be sent as representatives on someone else’s behalf. And if this is executed only as public, then mainstream political parties would rule like team of lords (like in case you’ve seen in the movie Mad Max).The definition of UBI, ought to have been restricted for single mothers/women, orphans, elderly, disabled, which cannot be questioned, of course! But the blanket version of UBI might lead us to mo(a)narchy, because of the following above reasons.
In the age of AI, wherein the commodity price of the Humans would increase/decrease, then there would nations, that would export the best quality in lesser price with AI initially acting as Workers (operators); and the remaining population would live under UBI (a controlled poverty); and the providers would dictate terms (mo(a)narchy). While other nations, whose population size isn’t the size of Japan; then in that case, only those who can wash their hands in dirt would be able to walk!
Philosophically, two narratives would be marketed then. First is: ‘see you on the other side’ and second is ‘Karma’. Albeit in both the cases, no one has seen, except in dreams, what’s on the other side, or, how Karma is evaluated.
And all this could have been altered had the Academia took cognizance of evolutionary traits (ET). With ET, I don’t contend about marks or race or caste or creed or scores. Nope! ET is something different, and if Academia failed to take cognizance of it, no one can! ☹
© Pranav Chaturvedi 2024