😀 Tom Universal Basic Income is the hot topic right now, but what I think would be better instead, is a paid 2-3 month vacation every year. I think that a lot of the benefits that UBI supposedly touts, can probably be achieved with a real break from work, and without giving up work altogether. This way, people can still be incentivized to work, but still have the ability to persue other creative endeavors.

Mark Dain That might be a way to steadily introduce UBI; where the money for vacation comes from increasing the amount of automated work. The thing with robots taking over work, we'll soon have a lot of people unemployed basically permanently. Consider self driving cars might destroy both the trucking industry and taxis/Uber. Trucking alone is millions of people. The problem is, they may not be able to just get a new job. Retail is being automated too, so is basically any job that doesn't require a degree / some special skill. The benefits of UBI are mostly side-effects; the real benefit is the economy doesn't collapse.