I think BI will be a necessity, but it will be an ugly discussion. The rich will want the poor to self-sterilize after N (0? 1?) children before it's allowed. I

I think BI will be a necessity, but it will be an ugly discussion. The rich will want the poor to self-sterilize after N (0? 1?) children before it's allowed. I know what people in that set talk about when no one else is listening, and they will be able to get behind paying poor people not to reproduce. I think that is the only way to get the current elite ("the 1 percent") behind basic income; tie it to voluntarily sterilization. Right now, society's really fucking barbaric. If you don't have health insurance and get sick, you die in a lot of pain and spend your last hours in some ER. If you're unemployed for 6+ months, you can't get a job unless you hire a guy like me to consult you on how to re-work your story and arrange references, and even then it's dicey because there's only so much that can be done. This isn't civilization; it's the decaying remnant of one. It either improves dramatically (which I wouldn't rule out) or it falls further because right now it even turns good people into vultures[0]. [0] Actually, I dislike this metaphor. Vultures are good citizens; but you know what I mean.