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I don't know if I'm the only one, but I really see the basic income as a strong force for increasing the inequality, leading to society stagnation and disallowing any social mobility effectively setting in stone current power structures.

I don't think we can ever say that the "jobs are gone". There are always things that people can do that are beneficial to the society but they can be either a) not profitable in the current economic framework or b) require highly skilled workforce that is currently not available on the job market.

If a) is the case, that means we are not really yet in the post scarcity world and need to first work more on providing "basic" goods so that we can afford having these less essential ones.

If b) is the case that means we need to put more resources into educating and training people. There is a sentiment that modern day universities are not worth the cost, but I highly disagree with that - society is only as good as people are educated and the more knowledge and highly developed skills people have the more they can participate in the economy.

In the world of the future, the "easy" jobs will be gone, but there will still be lots of things to do for smart, educated and skilled people. The only problem is that learning process and guiding a young human from newborn to such person is a costly process to the society. Providing basic income of barely "survival minimum" disincentives people to take that cost and participate in the economy. Until we have the AI that is better than humans at doing basic research, there is still a ton of things to do for humans, and I don't see anything good with excluding parts of the society from the process.