You seem to be describing a situation where there is a temporary absence of sufficient funds for a UBI (the “big gap in the middle”) after which there’s plenty of money to fund the UBI, potentially at a higher level than people’s original income.
The generic solution for a temporary lack of necessary funds with lots of funds being available in the future is getting a loan to be paid off when the money comes in. This consumption-smoothing would be good from the perspective of the AI companies as well, as “everyone is out of work and has no money to spend”, if it persists for long enough for people to burn through their savings, predictably leads to “the revenue streams of the AI companies collapse”.
How it would work out in detail is unclear, but if AI companies end up with a lot of economic power, I’d expect that gets taxed in some form by whoever’s providing the UBI, and in the meantime the UBI provider goes into a bit of debt.
You seem to be describing a situation where there is a temporary absence of sufficient funds for a UBI (the “big gap in the middle”) after which there’s plenty of money to fund the UBI, potentially at a higher level than people’s original income.
The generic solution for a temporary lack of necessary funds with lots of funds being available in the future is getting a loan to be paid off when the money comes in. This consumption-smoothing would be good from the perspective of the AI companies as well, as “everyone is out of work and has no money to spend”, if it persists for long enough for people to burn through their savings, predictably leads to “the revenue streams of the AI companies collapse”.
How it would work out in detail is unclear, but if AI companies end up with a lot of economic power, I’d expect that gets taxed in some form by whoever’s providing the UBI, and in the meantime the UBI provider goes into a bit of debt.