> some kind of cyberpunk dystopia, where powerful live isolated lives, protected by the police/military, and the rest live in squalor. Even in that scenario, i

> some kind of cyberpunk dystopia, where powerful live isolated lives, protected by the police/military, and the rest live in squalor. Even in that scenario, if all useful work is truly automated, there's either still some sort of UBI (just not enough to live comfortably) or the people living in squalor are subsistence farmers eating whatever they can manage to grow in whatever land they can lay claim to.