&gt; So I don&#x27;t have some moral problem with not working. The problem is the tax base would implode and there wouldn&#x27;t be anyone left paying the bills. The system would collapse.
&gt; Maybe if software actually eats the world but not until then.<p>That&#x27;s the most likely way I see a basic income happening, too: automation eats into a huge number of jobs – self-driving vehicles take out a LOT of people currently working as truckers, delivery drivers, etc.; robots turn Amazon warehouses into ghost towns where a few technicians tend the machines; whole categories of office jobs continue to fade as analog data entry goes away and processes are automated; and so forth.<p>In that kind of scenario, it&#x27;s easy to imagine voters supporting a tax on high earners and corporate income to provide an income for people who simply don&#x27;t have skills which can&#x27;t be done by a machine.