>Seriously? You honestly think that the political landscape is anywhere closer to accepting that kind of socialism? If businesses start automating everything,

>Seriously? You honestly think that the political landscape is anywhere closer to accepting that kind of socialism? If businesses start automating everything, unemployment skyrockets, they're going to be pushed there. They won't have a choice. What do you predict? Half the country is unemployed, poverty is rampant, chaos in the streets, the fatcats in Washington and 1% just sit back and do nothing? >And even if that automation happens, it's not going to change anything regarding UBI. It has to. >Here's the problem: If the automation happens before UBI gets into place, you are condemning those people to incredibly poor lives, and possibly homelessness and starvation. Here's the problem: UBI won't get into place without automation. If it were up to me, I'd have it right now. But it's going to take motivation by SELF-INTEREST for people to realize that it HAS to happen. That self-interest? The generally deplorable state of their country. I just want society to progress, that's all. If we were running this country effectively many of the inventions we are only seeing come to market today would have been here long ago. Greed holds us back, greed drives us forward. So let's stop letting it hold us back, let's push for automation, and then watch the chips fall from there. If you don't think automation will change anything, how do you think it will change without automation? Isn't that what you're proposing?