[chinese_dan]

The government will never just give you money, like many people seem to want. We would quickly run out of productive people and the economy would collapse soon thereafter.

We may, however, have government-assigned job programs. The people that want to sit on their ass and play video games all day would have to dig ditches, work on construction sites, and pick up garbage to receive a paycheck.

[gpsx]

It is called workfare, as opposed to welfare. I think we should be doing this now.

In the past people had to do things like dig ditches or build the hoover dam. Today it doesn't have to be physical labor. People can do work on a computer. If you are an out of work project manager you can do project management on the computer from your house. These people would in fact be managing work from the program itself. If you are really unqualified to do anything, worst case you can watch movies and then rate them. There is always more work to do.

[blackoil]

Even if the robots can dig ditches faster, construct buildings fast and efficient and pick up and automatically sort garbage

[chinese_dan]

Okay, then they will clean and maintain the robots. Those were just simple examples.

The government doesn't create wealth or prosperity and even if robots replaced the majority of jobs, the money to run and maintain the robots would have to come from somewhere.

Billionaires like Musk love the idea of basic income because it puts him in charge (he will never have to get basic income) and makes slaves out of the rest of us (if your only income comes from the government, they get to make most of your life decisions for you).

It's really just communism re-packaged when you think about it. A system where there are really only a couple of people with all of the power (IE: Musk) and they get to set all of the rules for the rest of us.

Many people from the communism days of Soviet Russia loved their life because they didn't actually have to worry about where their next dollar came from and jobs were assigned automatically.

[0n34n7]

Although the problem with communism is not so much the concept as it is the (mal)adminstration of it.

I believe a truly "transparent blockchain based"-cracy .. or a blockcracy... Could possibly work.