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by sram1337 386 days ago
...or your job goes from commanding a $200k/yr salary to $60k/yr. Hopefully that's enough to pay your mortgage.
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I am more worried about the resultant breakdown of the social order due to the social pressures and hopelessness and it's ramifications. Which next-bonus-cycle CEOs don't give a shit about. UBI is just talk (which few are talking) and even that has issues.
Currently the United States is in the process of making Medicaid and SNAP / food stamps contingent on being employed.

We’re further from UBI than we’ve ever been.