We'll probably have to do this eventually, once robots are doing all of the work. Could a robot do your job? If so, it eventually will. So unless you want to pay people to dig holes in the ground and fill them with dirt just for the sheer sake of creating an illusion of productivity, we're eventually going to need a UBI. Either that, or else we'll need to radically reduce our population with one-child laws and a complete moratorium on immigration.
We'll probably have to do this eventually, once robots are doing all of the work. Could a robot do your job? If so, it eventually will. So unless you want to pay people to dig holes in the ground and fill them with dirt just for the sheer sake of creating an illusion of productivity, we're eventually going to need a UBI. Either that, or else we'll need to radically reduce our population with one-child laws and a complete moratorium on immigration.
We'll probably have to do this eventually, once robots are doing all of the work. Could a robot do your job? If so, it eventually will. So unless you want to pay people to dig holes in the ground and fill them with dirt just for the sheer sake of creating an illusion of productivity, we're eventually going to need a UBI. Either that, or else we'll need to radically reduce our population with one-child laws and a complete moratorium on immigration.