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Yes, the idea that McJobs and "full employment" is the solution is something that will crash and burn with technological automation.Because it's cheaper to pay a handful of rich people that money than it is to run a bureaucracy to check whether they should get it or not.
There's some truth in that. But those jobs are going away anyway. There's virtually nothing in a McDonald's kitchen that can't be automated - it's just a matter of cost, and the cost of labour goes up every year while the cost of automation comes down. As for WalMart, those self-scan checkouts are making those jobs increasingly redundant.
The very idea that everyone should work is fundamentally unsustainable.
Finland is simply first. Probably because the Nokia debacle has crashed their country so suddenly and thoroughly.
Basic income should be viewed as the alternative to forcing people into crime.