Yeah, that was my point with basic income. With something like that, people without jobs wouldn't need to be homeless - the idea would be to give them enough to

Yeah, that was my point with basic income. With something like that, people without jobs wouldn't need to be homeless - the idea would be to give them enough to get by. You're right, automation will tend to put people out of work. If they can find more skilled work that hasn't been automated yet, they're fine, but if not... we'll start to have a problem. Unless, of course, we rethink the idea that people need to work to survive. Because honestly, if we don't need everyone to work for society to function, I don't see the value in forcing them to do so. (And maybe, in the long run, capitalism isn't the best choice for how we ultimately run our society. That kind of change isn't happening anytime soon, however. A basic income, on the other hand, might just have a chance.)