[pessimizer]

Then government should protect them, instead of preserving jobs that left them working nearly full-time and receiving transfer payments. Transfer payments going to full-time workers are simply subsidies to their employers.

[chitowneats]

For how long? I'm talking about people in their 30's who don't realize that there is never going to be a job for them again in the industry they were working in back in February 2020.

Mass UBI is not going to be the utopia people imagine it to be.

[pessimizer]

If we don't need their work because productivity is so high, then forever. If we do need their work, we should funnel them into the training they need to do it.

[djbebs]

What right do they have to the sweat of my brow?

What's in it for me to sustain those who provide nothing of use?

[chitowneats]

"Let the chips fall where they may" is exactly how we got here. You can't just "retrain" millions of people to be software engineers.

Again with the utopianism.