I like the idea of Universal Basic Income because it goes well with my view about the importance of jobs and automation in general. We already have a good chunk of the population that can’t be productive in the modern world because they do not have the proper skills. We need to support them anyway. We can’t stop automation as it is a natural tendency of mankind to create ways to simplify our lives. At one point, all the trivial tasks will be handled by automation. The labor forces will not be needed for basic work. At that point, one has a choice between learning and creating or just exist and enjoy the various access to the dopamine until you die. I do not think that this course of events is stoppable by anyone and I do not see any real problems in reaching that point.
>>> Economists welcome the chance to see whether giving people cash to spend however they choose improves livelihoods.