Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 41
In the most recent episode of “Exploring your Creative Genius,” I shared a fantasy story and asked you to help it come true.
It begins with us making the case to political, community and business leaders to prepare for the inevitable: in the face of the profound job loss that is occurring and will continue due to the improvements in AI and other office automation advances, businesses will find it is in their self-interest, sooner than later, to support a Universal Basic Income. The logic is simple.
- Businesses replace jobs with AI and other technologies, reducing what is for most organizations their largest expense of salaries, wages, and related personnel costs. This can be as much as 70% for many so it’s clear profits grow significantly.
- A time will arrive when so many of us will be unemployed that our purchasing power will be seriously eroded.
- Businesses need a market to sell their goods and services so they can continue to generate profit.
- Businesses’ support for a tax to fund a UGI will not just be good business, it will become necessary to doing business.
Standing alone this stipend is vulnerable to claims that, no matter how necessary, it’s just a welfare program or a government overreach. It is often called that now in political debate.
However, wise leadership should present UBI as an investment, not as a cost. It’s an investment in people, one that fuels a tremendous grass roots bottoms-up creative and entrepreneurial renaissance made ready because North Carolina leaders with foresight previously embraced and implemented programs designed and promoted to cultivate our natural creative qualities and develop our entrepreneurial instincts and behaviors.
So we’ve changed the conversation. UBI is not a welfare program, it is the fuel to help Makers make, Creators create, Builders build and Growers grow.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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