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by km144 334 days ago
How about... greater benefits to people who are unemployed? I mean, UBI is inherently a poor policy for "mass unemployment scenarios", because there is no feasible scenario in which the majority of people are unemployed. To give UBI to people making around the median wage or higher because there is mass unemployment due to automation that doesn't affect them doesn't seem like a good use of money at all.
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"there is no feasible scenario in which the majority of people are unemployed"

Try not to ever forget you said this, you'll find it hilarious in the future.

The value of typical human labor never stops falling, while the costs of employment never stop rising. Something's going to give, and it's not going to be the profits.