You’re right. And that is why we are in for a REALLY rough decade or so in the near future.
But once even “intelligent” tech workers, celebrity artists, etc are suffering? It won’t just be the cab drivers who “should have seen the way the wind was blowing and learned a new skill”. It is going to be widespread unemployment and suffering.
And that is when even just “We are going to investigate this” goes a long way.
Also: Bad actors will still fuck it up. But most models of UBI I have seen is that you get a baseline from the government and then are encouraged to work on top of that. Which still lends itself well to the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” fallacy and makes it a lot easier to stomach.
You’re right. And that is why we are in for a REALLY rough decade or so in the near future.
But once even “intelligent” tech workers, celebrity artists, etc are suffering? It won’t just be the cab drivers who “should have seen the way the wind was blowing and learned a new skill”. It is going to be widespread unemployment and suffering.
And that is when even just “We are going to investigate this” goes a long way.
Also: Bad actors will still fuck it up. But most models of UBI I have seen is that you get a baseline from the government and then are encouraged to work on top of that. Which still lends itself well to the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” fallacy and makes it a lot easier to stomach.