In addition, the specter of automation is looming. As a software engineer in a field roughly adjacent to this (embedded sensors), I believe that robots can and will be a great aid to human endeavors, but I do not think that neoliberal, everyone-for-themselves public policies are compatible with it. Sure, automation will create other jobs, but these jobs will replace unskilled labor with skilled, highly technical labor that requires the equivalent of an Electrical Engineering degree (or something similar). In order to avoid the unrest, disillusionment, and abject poverty that typically accompanies massive unemployment, universal basic income of the manner you describe will be essential. It would also curb Luddite-esque destructive tendencies, which were borne of this perception of economic insecurity.
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