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by diputsmonro 856 days ago
The social safety net component of your idea is both extremely important and not at all likely in the modern ultra-capitalist, "even healthcare is socialist extremism" political atmosphere.

Maybe mass unemployment will create a sea change in that mentality, but most of the people who's opinions need to be changed will probably just laugh at "the elites" getting screwed over.

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It's a shame Andrew Yang isn't running this year, as his 2020 platform of UBI because of AI is looking very prescient.