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.
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