Originally Posted by elphenor

if you already have yourself a nice job

his setup is how automation caused unemployment/underemployment

then he proposes something that does nothing to fix that problem

either UBI has to be a complete substitute for working or you have to create jobs

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.