Raw LLM Responses

Ideally... Step 1.5: institute reverse tax to keep people alive and in their homes as unemployment hits unprecedented levels. Step 2: expand reverse tax into full UBI as unemployment grows towards 100% Step 3: People start cashing out their investments/retirement accounts for extra cash. Stock market starts to crash. Step 4: To stop stock market crash companies take extra profits from labor savings and implement monthly dividends to keep people from pulling out - companies start competing on dividend yeild rather than stock price itself. Gov starts taxing dividends (401k or otherwise) as regular income independent of age. Step 5: UBI (funded at multiple levels, Fed, State, Local, and Hyper Local) expands slightly beyond location based base needs to allow people an investment onramp. Step 6: some time passes, 10 years? 1000? Step 7: All companies are entirely run by AI with strict built in regulations to stop monopoly formation. All companies are by regulation owned by minority share holders. There are millions of AI operated companies fiercely competing and popping and and out of existance rapidly. People's investments are managed by an AI which trys to maximize dividend yield while adhering to your morals and ethics (the ultimate "vote with your wallet") and most people now supplement their UBI with enough dividend income that the QOL of the average individual greatly exceeds that of today's upper middle class. This progression, to me feels natural (a dividend based economy) - the UBI being enough to on ramp people is the part that needs people to fight for, without it you just cement the have and have nots and anyone with money invested or saved to invest becomes absurdly rich and those living paycheck to paycheck get stuck surviving on UBI.