Basic income is such a fundamental societal shift that until society starts to make actual headway towards it, discussions of the future shouldn't take it into

Basic income is such a fundamental societal shift that until society starts to make actual headway towards it, discussions of the future shouldn't take it into account unless that's the premise of the discussion. It's just too big of a "what if" at this point. It's like hypotheticals about the 2020 presidential election. Regardless of the plausibility of any specific outcome, there's just too much between here and there for it to be a useful discussion yet.