gringo2011
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What happens next then, in your opinion? In 10 years there won’t be enough jobs for everyone. Which means there won’t be enough consumers with money for lots of companies, and not enough people with cash to keep propping up asset prices. So how do we navigate that?
It's an inevitability at some point. Richard Nixon looked into a UBI in the 1960s. Nearly pioneered it and if it wasn't for lefty journos catching him out the US might look quite different now.
It's a preferable model to the dole to me. It still incentivises people to work and innovate but gives a non stigmatised safety net and baseline living standard. It's become a partisan issue instead of a grown up debate.