7. Mass unemployment is a feature, not a bug: Un(der)employment is perfectly consistent with universal prosperity. The primary goal of an economy is to provide a decent standard of living, not to maximize human toil (Chapter 2). 8. Forced employment is dystopian: Attempting to artificially maintain full employment in a highly automated society will trap humans in low-paying hyper-competition and socially wasteful (BS) jobs (marketing arms races, predatory finance, ...) (Chapter 4). 9. UBI is economically affordable: Multiple complementary instruments can finance GI, either directly via automation, luxury, Pigouvian, land, inheritance, consumption, and service taxes, or indirectly via wealth funds, even cost-neutrally (Chapter 5). 10. Alternative safety nets are inferior: Conditional welfare, job guarantees, and means-tested transfers re-introduce surveillance, conditionality, or BS-jobs that UBI avoids. Universal Basic Services can augment but not replace cash transfers. Blocking automation via regulation only halts progress (Chapter 6). 11. Democracy is self-correcting: Failing to redistribute the wealth generated by AI risks severe inequality (Figures 5.3 and 7.5) and social unrest. In a functioning democracy, the displaced majority will vote for parties that enact redistribution; at the limit, the threat of civil unrest compels even reluctant capital owners to share the gains of automation (Chapter 7). 12. International challenges are solvable: Global asymmetries and tax base erosion can be managed through tariffs, destination-based consumption taxes, digital services taxes, a global minimum tax, and international coordination (Chapter 8). 13. Coordination failures become easier to address: By removing the desperation for employment, AGI paired with UBI deflates the pressure behind BS-jobs, marketing arms races, and exploitative gig work, creating political space for complementary institutional reforms (Chapter 10).

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