>>9998966>who is going to make society run?The 20%. It's headed that way already, in reality. Online shopping only, automated deliveries, limited consumer choice but still just enough to make it look like you still them. That sort of thing.
We've been rocking half a million "non-essential" employees being dumped per week here, and it's not slowing down. They can't live off Universal Credit, it's pathetically low. If the stay home order persists past another month, they will start forming mobs and wrecking shit. The perfect time to announce a little "trial" of UBI alongside a magical vaccine that comes attached with a subdermal chip, if there ever was one.
Spain has already announced it is going ahead with UBI. All eyes on Spain, then. The main economic obstacle to UBI is hyperinflation. Yet if everyone does it (or 80%) the levelling of wages into a predictable consumer resource may in fact have the opposite effect.