It seems like a lot of the people who understand technology agree that some form of UBI, sooner or later, is a given. On the other hand, a lot of the people who

It seems like a lot of the people who understand technology agree that some form of UBI, sooner or later, is a given. On the other hand, a lot of the people who don't understand technology, disagree that it's a given. I think it's a given because technology reduces the need for labor in that it allows fewer people to provide for the same needs. If we continue to rely on "work as the main mechanism which allocates spending power" we'll run into a huge problem when only a few people are "working." If we just plain don't need everybody to work in order to provide for everybody's needs...then we'll need a way OTHER THAN work to distribute the stuff everybody needs. We'll either invent activities that aren't actually work (like Japan assigning people to open doors) or we'll give people what they need without asking them to work for it. People who grok technology seem to agree on this conclusion even if they don't arrive at it in quite the same way.