Universal basic income might actually be necessary.
This isn't a political take — it's economics.
If AI eliminates the jobs, the displaced workers have no income. If they have no income, they don't buy. If nobody buys, the corporations that ran the automation have nobody left to sell to. The whole engine stalls.
UBI stops being charity in that framing. It becomes the demand-side patch that keeps the system from eating itself.
One takeaway: the people most against UBI today might be the ones quietly building the business case for it tomorrow.
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