I think a lot of the push for BI comes from the realization that a lot of these jobs will go away through automation. We already see grocery stores with automated self check out stations. Soon, we'll see the same kind of automation at work in Amazon warehouses stocking the shelves too. An entire supermarket could operate with only a handful of employees. Yes, they'd have to be paid a bit more to create a gap between the pay and BI, but the overall costs of running the supermarket would go down.

Across all sectors of the economy, lots of low-income jobs will be eliminated. If we don't have BI to protect those soon-to-be-ex-workers, we're going to have a sizable portion of population in poverty, with no skills that let them outperform automated systems.