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UBI - Unconditional Basic Income and Electronic Technocracy

Mikey Miller
Sep 4
9 min read

Updated: Sep 5

The grand narrative of the Unconditional Basic Income and Electronic Technocracy

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Part I – Humanity at the Abyss and the Birth of a New Idea

1. The Old Logic of Scarcity

Since the first human settlements, life was synonymous with work. Fields had to be cultivated, animals tamed, walls erected. Those who did not work starved. Those who did not fight lost.

For millennia, work was not only an economic necessity but also a moral duty.

In modern times, the external framework changed, but not the inner logic. Capitalism promised opportunities for advancement, but it still tied survival to income. Wages were the lifeblood of the system. States taxed human labor to finance schools, roads, and hospitals. Successful people were burdened with levies, while others depended on welfare.

A constant struggle for resources, a game in which success always also produced distrust and envy.

The classical Universal Basic Income (UBI) sought to break this logic.

It wanted to guarantee every person a minimum, regardless of whether they worked or not. But its funding models remained stuck in the old paradigm: higher taxes on income, wealth, or consumption. Thus, the successful had to pay while the majority received.

A solution intended to seem fairer, but ultimately creating new injustices.

2. The Crisis of the Old Model

Today, at the dawn of the 21st century, this logic finally collapses. Artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation are transforming the fundamental formula of the economy more radically than any industrial revolution before.

Self-driving cars threaten millions of drivers.
Algorithms perform office work faster than entire departments.
Robots replace craftsmen, surgeons, and even artists.

The question is no longer: “Will AI destroy jobs?” – but: “Which few jobs will remain?”

For the first time in history, we see an economy in which humans are no longer the main source of value creation. Machines work without pause, without hunger, without wages. They produce more than all the workers, farmers, and employees of human history combined could ever produce.

And with this upheaval, the old foundation of state finances also dies: the tax on human labor. When machines take over value creation, the tax system loses its basis.

3. The Birth of the Electric Technocracy

Here a new model emerges: the Electric Technocracy.

It makes a radical break:

Humans become tax-free.
Only machines, corporations, and AI systems pay taxes.
The revenues flow directly into a universal, dynamic basic income.

For the first time in history, a basic income is not alms, but a dividend. Every human receives not the minimum for survival, but their rightful share of the collective wealth of the machines.

The Universal Basic Income of the Electric Technocracy is not the old UBI – it is a new form of civilization.

4. Humanity as Wishmaster

If robots and ASI take over the work, what remains for humans?

The answer is as simple as it is revolutionary: imagination.

The human becomes the Wishmaster – the dreamer, storyteller, visionary. Their task is no longer to till the field or work the assembly line. Their task is to have ideas.

A child sketches a drawing → AI builds an entire city from it.
An artist describes a work → robots create it in marble or light.
A scientist dreams of a cure → quantum computers deliver the solution overnight.

The machines are like the djinn of ancient myths – servants who fulfill wishes. But unlike the old legends, they do not enslave, they liberate.

5. The Psychological Revolution

But this liberation confronts us with a new challenge: the question of meaning.

For millennia, work was not only economically necessary but also psychologically meaningful. We worked to feed our children. We fought to defend our homeland. We studied to defeat disease.

If all this is done by machines, what remains for us?

Will we flourish in creativity?
Or fall into boredom?
Will we enter a golden age – or an age of nihilism?

The Electric Technocracy offers an answer: It replaces compulsion with freedom, but it demands from humanity a new narrative, a new myth.

6. Why Old UBI Models Fail

To grasp the magnitude of this revolution, we must clearly name the contrast:

Classical UBI models take from the successful and give to the weak. They are redistribution systems that punish achievement and create dependency.
The UBI of the Electric Technocracy takes nothing from humans, but distributes the abundance of the machines. It does not punish performance, but rewards creativity. It creates not envy, but equality.

Here lies the moral core: Humans remain free, tax-free, creative – while only the machines pay.

Part II – The Architecture of the Electric Technocracy

1. The Abolition of Nation-States

The greatest barrier to a global basic income is not technical, but political in nature: the existence of nations.

For centuries, people lived with the belief that borders guaranteed their identity and security. But borders are also walls that divide: different tax systems, currencies, interests.

A global basic income can only exist if these walls fall. Because as long as nations compete against one another, every reform will dissolve into national egoism.

The Electric Technocracy therefore builds on the World Succession Deed 1400/98 – an international treaty that no longer views the world as a patchwork of states, but as a unified civilization. With it, the escape route of the wealthy into tax havens disappears, as does the inequality between “rich” and “poor” countries.

There is only one world, one law, one shared income.

2. The Role of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)

At the center of this new order stands the ASI – Artificial Superintelligence.

Its task is not domination, but advice and coordination:

It gathers real-time data about the economy, environment, and society.
It analyzes risks, imbalances, and opportunities.
It develops solution proposals, which are published transparently.
Humanity votes on them – in a Direct Digital Democracy (DDD).

ASI is therefore not the “King of the World,” but a global advisor – a neutral instance that overcomes corruption, greed, and human error.

Key Points:

All decision-making processes are open source.
Citizens can submit their own proposals.
Voting takes place globally, securely, blockchain-based.
Political parties become obsolete – because conflicts of interest dissolve when the people decide for themselves.

Thus emerges an order without wars between parties, without dictatorships, without lobbyism.

3. Tax Revolution: Tax Tech Only

The foundation of the new economic system is the radical tax exemption of humans.

No income tax.
No value-added tax.
No wealth tax.

Humans are tax-free.

Instead:

Corporations pay on profits.
Robots and AI systems pay based on productivity, energy consumption, or output.
Every form of automated value creation is taxed proportionally.

This tax base is not only efficient, but also morally superior: machines cannot feel injustice, humans can.

4. UBI as Dividend, Not Charity

The basic income financed in this way fundamentally differs from all previous models:

It is not the minimum for survival, but the rightful share of the world product.
It automatically grows with the productivity of machines.
The more efficient robots and ASI become, the higher the UBI rises.

This means:

No one lives in fear of poverty.
Every person directly participates in progress.
Prosperity is no longer a matter of grace or politics – but an enshrined right.

5. Price Stability Instead of Inflation

One of the greatest fears about classical UBI was: “Won’t that lead to inflation?”

But in the Electric Technocracy, a new logic applies:

All humans receive the same share.
New purchasing power does not emerge arbitrarily, but proportionally to the real productivity of machines.
There is no artificial monetary expansion – only the distribution of what is truly created.

The result is an unprecedented price and value stability.

Food, energy, housing, and education become nearly free through surplus production.
Money is not inflated by speculation, but backed by real value creation.
Inflation becomes the exception, not the rule.

6. Humans as Wishmasters in a Djinn Economy

The new role of humans is often described as “prompt engineer,” but more fitting is the image of the Wishmaster.

Humans dream.
The machine fulfills.
ASI optimizes.

It is a perfect division of labor:

Humans provide meaning, creativity, longing.
The machine provides precision, execution, speed.

Thus emerges an economy in which ideas matter more than possessions, and in which every human can become a creator.

7. The Moral Superiority

Why is the Electric Technocracy not only practical, but also morally superior?

It does not punish success – but rewards ideas.
It frees humans from the burden of taxation.
It prevents politicians from monopolizing wealth.
It guarantees equal opportunities for all – not through forced equality, but through shared access to abundance.

At its core, it is the first form of society that truly unites freedom and equality.

Part III – The Future Vision of the Electric Technocracy

1. The Hundredfold Leap in Productivity

When ASI, robotics, and full automation take over global value creation, productivity does not rise by 10 or 20 percent – but a hundredfold.

Factories without workers.
Governments without bureaucrats.
Companies without managers.

A civilization working at machine speed generates an economic output surpassing everything human hands have ever achieved.

And the crucial point: This growth belongs to everyone. Every human is a co-owner of the world product – not through shares, but through UBI.

2. The Technological Singularity

The Electric Technocracy prepares humanity for the greatest turning point in history: the Singularity.

Centuries of scientific discoveries compressed into days.
Mysteries of medicine, biology, and physics solved in minutes.
Energy systems, agriculture, and transport perfected.

It is as if humanity suddenly received thousands of years of future at once.

The Alien Metaphor:

As if a highly advanced, peaceful civilization descended from the sky to gift us knowledge – only this intelligence does not come from outside, but is born from our own circuits.

3. Two Paths at the Crossroads

The Singularity is not an automatic paradise. It is a crossroads.

The dystopian path: A small elite monopolizes ASI, hoards wealth, and the rest of humanity lives in digital serfdom. Eternal bodies for the few, eternal fear for the many.
The paradisiacal path: ASI is understood as the common heritage of humanity. Prosperity is shared through UBI, wars are abolished, creativity replaces forced labor.

The Electric Technocracy is the first realistic model that shows how to take the second path.

4. Freedom Without Fear

For the first time in history, human survival no longer depends on labor.

No one must toil to eat.
No one must compete to survive.
Basic needs are guaranteed – through a growing UBI, financed by machines.

This radically shifts the question of life: No longer “How do I survive?” but “What do I create?”

5. The New Question of Meaning

But with this freedom comes a dilemma:

For millennia, meaning was tied to necessity.
We worked to feed children, endure disease, win wars.

What happens when necessity disappears?

Do we find meaning in art, research, and spirituality?
Do we sink into decadence and nihilism?
Or do we develop a new culture that places creativity, exploration, and humanity at its core?

The Electric Technocracy forces us to ask this question – and provides the foundation to answer it freely.

6. Humanity as Co-Creator

With machines as djinn fulfilling our wishes, humanity becomes the Wishmaster.

A child draws a city – ASI and robots build it.
An artist describes a sculpture – machines carve it.
A scientist thinks of a cure – quantum computers simulate it overnight.

The boundary between imagination and reality dissolves. Human creativity becomes the engine of civilization.

7. The Return of Wonder

Religion gave us wonder through mysteries for millennia. Science replaced it with methods – often at the cost of magic.

With ASI, wonder returns, this time as lived reality:

When diseases vanish.
When energy becomes inexhaustible.
When the mysteries of the universe unfold daily.

Humanity enters a state once known only to mystics: life in the wonder of existence.

8. The Contrast of Eternity

Here culminates the greatest question: What does “eternity” mean?

Trump’s vision: Eternal life for the few through technology.
Putin’s vision: Eternal power through endless war.

Both lead to slavery. One privatizes time, the other freezes history.

The Electric Technocracy offers a third answer: the immortality of humanity as a species. Not bodies or regimes endure – but a civilization that becomes immortal through abundance, creativity, and cosmic expansion.

9. The Electronic Paradise

If humanity chooses the path of the Electric Technocracy, no naïve utopia emerges, but an electronic civilization:

Machines secure abundance.
Humans provide dreams.
ASI turns dreams into reality.

This is not the end of history – but its rebirth.

10. The Final Decision

The Singularity is inevitable. But paradise is not.

Either ten trillion machines work for the profit of a few.
Or ten trillion machines work for the freedom of all.

UBI, financed through AI and robotics, is the hinge of the future. It decides whether we fall into digital serfdom – or rise into an electronic paradise.