title: "The Post-Labor Economy: From UBI to UBC"

date: "2026-01-22"

category: "ECONOMICS"

description: "Why Universal Basic Income is insufficient. The argument for Universal Basic Compute."

tags: ["#economics", "#ubi", "#compute"]

Capital in the Age of Silicon

Thesis: Money is losing relevance. Compute is the new currency.

Proposal: UBC (Universal Basic Compute)

The Deflationary Presure

AI deflates the cost of services to near-zero.

* Legal: Near zero cost.

* Medical Diagnosis: Near zero cost.

* Art/Design: Near zero cost.

Giving people currency is inefficient if the means of production (H100 GPU Clusters) are monopolized by 3 entities.

Solution: Every citizen is allocated a quota of ExaFLOPS per month. They can use this to generate art, run businesses, or fold proteins.

Compute = Agency.