Universal Basic Energy Equity
= "UBEE — Universal Basic Energy Equity — is not a basic income scheme. It is a new social contract." [1]
Description
Myung San Jun
< "Not: redistribute the gains after production. But: own the infrastructure before production begins." >
"Citizens own the energy that powers AI. Citizens own the source, not just the output. And as AI accelerates — as more labor dissolves into electrical current — the value of that source only grows.
The faster automation runs, the higher the dividend.
This is not redistribution. This is the ownership of the foundation that civilization has always run on — extended, for the first time, to every citizen.
For most of human history, ownership of energy production was impossible to distribute. Coal mines, oil fields, nuclear plants — these require massive capital concentration. Ordinary citizens could not own them in any meaningful sense.
Solar photovoltaics change this for the first time in history.
The means of energy production can now be distributed — owned by cooperatives, communities, and cities rather than concentrated in the hands of utilities and fossil fuel companies. The technology exists. The economics are favorable. Solar is now the cheapest source of electricity in history, and costs continue to fall.
This is the moment UBEE becomes possible. Not as theory. As infrastructure.
Whoever owns energy owns AI. And whoever owns AI owns the economy.
They all started one step too late — after the value had already been created and concentrated. UBEE starts before.
What if citizens owned the energy that powers AI — and received the dividends that AI generates?
Not as welfare. Not as redistribution. As a property right — the same kind of claim capital holders have always enjoyed, extended for the first time to every citizen by constitutional design.
A structure in which income is guaranteed even as labor disappears. In which the faster AI accelerates, the greater citizens’ income becomes."
(https://medium.com/@myungsanjun/ubi-has-been-asking-the-wrong-question-for-60-years-a0264ee5133f)