{"slug": "what-do-you-do", "title": "What Do You Do?", "summary": "A hypothetical scenario proposes that AI has replaced all jobs, including manual labor, and everyone receives a universal basic income equivalent to a director-level salary, asking what people would do with their time. Applications for this scenario are open until July 27.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||\n3 points by |\nOk so AI is now doing all the jobs. Even the manual ones. And you, and everyone else, are getting a universal basic income that's equivalent to a director level job salary in your location. You don't have to \"work\" to earn a living. So what do you do now? | |||||||||||\nApplications are open till July 27. |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-do-you-do", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49019291", "published_at": "2026-07-23 10:16:50+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-23 10:52:52.942837+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-do-you-do", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-do-you-do.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-do-you-do.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-do-you-do.jsonld"}}