Universal basic income in the future

[Mister Agenda]

At time goes on, it will also be cheaper to implement BMI: Automation costs jobs, but it also makes things cheaper. Basics like food, clothing, and shelter; as well as non-basics such as electronic entertainment; are headed towards becoming almost dirt-cheap. In that kind of post-scarcity, it would require far less of the national budget as a percentage to ensure that people have enough to eat and clothes to wear.

There will be a tipping point where recognition that providing a lot of people with basic needs is cheap compared to not doing so.