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Re:Universal basic income to be tested in Wales by chii on Saturday May 15, 2021 @10:28AM (#27165533)
> they can sustain me like that but they can't sustain most of the population.

you got lucky. The skills you had was a right fit for the times.

What the gov't needs to do is to up-skill people so that they can provide for themselves. This will take a lot of effort, but i do believe that such investment is worth it. Rather than UBI, or any sort of welfare that encourages people to stop working.

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Re:Universal basic income to be tested in Wales by lorepieri on Sunday May 16, 2021 @11:09AM (#27174214)
In few decades there will just not be enough jobs in which humans are more convenient to employ than robots and AIs.

Up-skilling is just delaying the problem we will face when there is not enough offer to match the demand for jobs.

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