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# Macroeconomics

2026-11-05

What Do People Actually Do When Given $500/Month Unconditionally? 3-Year Trial Data: Entrepreneurship Doubled and Nobody Became Lazy

UBI & AI Social Reconstruction Column #10. Critics of Universal Basic Income (UBI) constantly claim that if people don't have to clock in out of fear of starvation, society will collapse into laziness. We examine hard data from the Stockton SEED trial ($500/month), OpenResearch, and cognitive psychology's 'Scarcity Bandwidth Tax' to show why removing survival terror unleashes the greatest renaissance in human creativity.

2026-11-01

Why Did Henry Ford Double His Workers' Wages? If AI Replaces Every Worker, Who Will Trillion-Dollar Tech Giants Sell To?

[UBI & AI Social Reconstruction · Episode 06] In 1914, Henry Ford shocked Wall Street by doubling his assembly-line workers' pay from $2.34 to $5 a day. It wasn't charity—Ford saw the fatal flaw of industrial capitalism: if the workers making cars cannot afford to buy cars, the factory goes bankrupt. As AI agents and robotics replace millions of white- and blue-collar hours in 2026, who will buy the products of trillion-dollar tech giants if humans have no paychecks?