Removing basic suffering, like food insecurity, is prerequisite work for people to pursue higher aims. You cannot ask someone to think about what they want to do with their life when they're worried about their next meal.
AGI will make it harder than ever to get an entry-level job. People will burn out competing for the few positions that remain, while others will benefit from the unemployment this creates.
The automation won't stop at white collar work. Manual jobs will increasingly be done by robots instead of people. Factories will get more automated. Gig work will tone down as drones and autonomous vehicles take over delivery and transportation.
When people can't afford quality food, they switch to what's available: pesticide-ridden produce, ramen, fatty processed foods. This damages their bodies. The people who can least afford healthcare will be the ones destroying their health through cheap food.
We need infrastructure and technology that makes $1 per meal—or less—possible for each person. At that price point, a $1,000 monthly UBI could feed someone for a month. But this can't be garbage food. It needs to be extremely high quality.
Verifiiid is building tensile farming infrastructure in horizontal and vertical configurations. This technology grows food at the cost of minerals, water, and energy, which translates to pennies per kilogram. No soil. No pesticides. Complete climate control.
The economics finally work at scale.
Once people have access to delicious, nutritious food, a major stressor disappears from their lives. They can stop worrying about whether they can afford to eat well. They can focus on what they actually want to do with their time on earth.
That's the goal. Not just cheap food, but removing the anxiety around food entirely.