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Yeah, robots doing drudge work is exactly the future we were promised. It’s just that that’s supposed to allow humans to have more free time to pursue their interests, not die in a ditch from starvation.
I think something like UBI is basically an inevitability. If government's try to ignore the problem the entire economic system will collapse, there'll be a lot of production going on, but there won't be anyone to buy any of the products. So they will have to introduce UBI.
However it would be nice if they could introduce it before the inevitable civil wars and civil unrest force them to.
They wont because our leaders and their owners are delusional and mentally ill.
From a UK perspective:
The pensioners would never vote for party that would introduce something like this. They HATE the idea of younger generations getting "free money". Honestly they're the real problem. But they're the demographic that vote the most and have a huge sway.
Just don't point out to them how their triple locked pensions are probably the biggest financial cost to our [UK] country...