Quote Originally Posted by K-slice View Post
The big question is; how long before the government is forced to give an allowance to a citizen based on nothing more than their existence, or there is a peasant revolt as owners grow wealthier and wealthier with fewer and fewer workers.

It's begun already. The lagging employment numbers aren't because so many people now are lazy. It's because their choices are a menial job that wont pay the bills, or government assistance. In the old days these people would work on the line, dig ditches, or be gladiators for Caesar because those were the best options available. Today the best option is to sit on government assistance for as long as possible. And being that I don't see us going back to the human dominated assembly line any time soon, let alone the Colosseum, allowance it will be!
I'd be open to UBI if, 1) the amount were near subsistence, 2) funded by elimination of other social programs, 3) not means tested. Universal means universal. You can tax it back [[by changes to std. deduction, for example.

This is more likely to kill unions than robots. Robots will probably strengthen unions, as workers feel more threatened and Democrats go from card check to guaranteed universal union membership from Sanders 2020.