&gt;At the end of 2 generations, people may not need to work or 50+% of them will be forced into permanent unemployment.<p>Or maybe not.  People have been predicting that for hundreds of years, and it still hasn&#x27;t happened.<p>&gt;What do you do in that case? Does the state toss democracy out the window by culling the unemployable? Does the state implement basic income to prevent such a tragedy from occurring?<p>The problem is UBI might cause big problems in the absence of any other problems.  Certainly if labor becomes mostly worthless I&#x27;d consider it, but that&#x27;s certainly not the case just yet.