I advocate a transition to a basic income grant(BIG) policy precisely because wage-earning work seems to be tapering off as a sufficient means of income for the

I advocate a transition to a basic income grant(BIG) policy precisely because wage-earning work seems to be tapering off as a sufficient means of income for the lowest earners. When food and retail services go automated - and that might take some more decades to be cost-effective, though it's already been piloted in various ways - we'll really be staring this problem in the face. You'll have one person manning the counter, and then perhaps nobody at all - just outsourced security, delivery, and maintenance systems. And at that point, one person could potentially run an entire chain of businesses, and have them stay open 24 hours a day, with super-high reliability. Global franchises will be demolished in the same way that national newspapers are right now. This really is a new era, isn't it?