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Worldcoin: Good Faith Global UBI Effort or Dystopian Dumpster Fire?

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The Ethics of Global UBI

I understand why world coiners have pushed back on the idea that this is exploitative in the sense that what they are seeing is a way to distribute free value into the hands of people who need it the most first. On top of that, I do think there's an important ethical conversation to be had around how free market the free market transaction of trading biometric data for cryptocurrency is in the context of some of the world's most vulnerable populations. There are questions of whether global UBI is really the right approach to dealing with a world of AI abundance or even what that world looks like. And I do think that there is a real question about whether every project should be taken on by every

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