This is also Marshall Brain's idea: http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm IIRC, he advocates a 25k s

This is also Marshall Brain's idea: http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm IIRC, he advocates a 25k stipend for all americans, which incidentally, given ~300M people would cost 7.5 trillion. That's approximately double the entire federal budget for 2012. Factoring in state/local spending gets you to near 6 trillion. Given that fact and our current political climate, I don't think it's going out on a limb to say that it'll be a quite a while before adopt such a solution. ;) Brain suggests lots of ways of raising the money (some rather implausible) here: http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-freedom.htm http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-freedom.htm