[powmonk]

I agree there should be a minimum social infrastructure but shouldn't there also be more? In a near future where automation has made most jobs obsolete people shouldn't have any form of luxury at all? No capital to speculate? No hobbies? Seems like a very dull future.

[negamax]

I am being pragmatic. Having lived (currently living) in a pseudo socialist state, I do not think UBI/welfare state is going to last. May be I am wrong in sense of not knowing how people will change given the choice.

Minimum social infrastructure elevates the bottom for everyone. If people can rise from that bottom further, maybe we can work towards elevating the bottom further and further as time passes.