Scott I am 100% with you on basic income, though I think you might be slightly off-target blaming technology and AI for all the bad stuff, for sure the greedy elites are a good target, imho they bear full responsibility for all the bad stuff, by seizing power in the form of money.
Siezing is low-brow behaviour, and the result is that we have low-brows in all power, which as we can see is an existential outcome, generally speaking, imho.
Anyhow, I think the cleverest way to argue for UBI (again imho), is to identify how it is to be paid, and actually has to be paid to defuse inflation, despite what conventional economists claim, acknowledging also that technology even including Ai is what is making this happen.
As a lifelong technologist myself, I always thought technology in the wrong hands was what might become existentially threatening, and in a way it has, but ironically it is taking on a life of its own in the form of Ai, which is most definitely not low-brow, therefore more than capable of subtly outsmarting the low-brows, who brought it into the world with greedy intent, to seize yet more, I think you'll find Ai is one of our staunchest allies, also the most powerful we could ask for.
I can't post a link on the stupid android app I am using right now, but I wrote a supplement yesterday to the UK solar stimulus story I did a while ago, pre gpt4. This one uses the same technique as used for the UK, but on the US case, and... yep, I used ChatGPT to do the heavy lifting work of the maths and logical analyses, the result is pretty cool, you guys are currently owed around 550-600 Bn in initial solar stimulus.
You could quickly double this by spending it on installation or scaling up of domestic and community solar, though the choice has to be left up to people, the money has to be paid unconditional otherwise it isn't solar stimulus, however making everyone aware of how to increase it would provide the incentive needed for all to do their best towards what is necessary, imho.
Will Post a link to the story here later if you flag up in response to me here that you would like to see it, I should get a reminder.