>> By 2020, with 15% of 7.5 billion people projected to own an automobile [0]
15% in 2020, so let's be nice and assume 17% by 2024. Let's be super nice and assume an additional 10% can afford a car, but choose to not buy one for some reason. What happens to the other 73% of people? (5,475,000,000 human beings)
Does a baby own a car? Half of all people are children or are in a care home! Huge misuse of statistics!
What about a wife using a husband's car? What about people who lease a car? They don't own it, so won't show up in your number. What about a taxi or rental car?
Again, when transformational technology appeared for transport - car - the government organised public transport. When books and educations became important, we organised public libraries. The idea that it's either UBI or we leave people to the wolves betrays a lack of thought.
Where are they taking the AI bus or subway to? AI automation allows a few million humans to replace the billions that it used to take to make the movies, music, software, textiles, pick the rice and corn, etc, right?
Human productivity will have gone up another 1000x, in just the next 20 years, right?
What are the extra people going to do? We certainly can't just give them free stuff, can we? That would be against our beliefs!
Oh snap, capitalism was so successful that we are near post-scarcity society, good thing our politics are totally ready for that.
>> By 2020, with 15% of 7.5 billion people projected to own an automobile [0]
15% in 2020, so let's be nice and assume 17% by 2024. Let's be super nice and assume an additional 10% can afford a car, but choose to not buy one for some reason. What happens to the other 73% of people? (5,475,000,000 human beings)
[0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/World-population-and-the...