
Re: People don't need jobs...
you forgot the 'joke' tag
people don't need a 'universal basic income'. We'd just be universally MISERABLE.
The basic problem is that, for menial jobs, people are TOO EXPENSIVE. Robots are cheaper.
There used to be rooms full of people adding numbers in banks. They were called "calculators". Not so much any more. Would YOU want THAT job? I wouldn't!
As the minimum wage is LEGISLATIVELY increased, and "benefits" MANDATED, companies discover that it's TOO EXPENSIVE to hire people to do 'certain jobs'. The only alternative, if the job can't be shipped to a place where it's "affordable" again, is to have a ROBOT do the work.
And teenagers can't find work, because it's TOO EXPENSIVE to hire an inexperienced person to do ANYTHING any more, including BURGER FLIPPING.
A job that COSTS MORE than it is worth will NO LONGER EXIST. If it COSTS LESS to build a robot to do something, that's what will happen.
Feelings and political pontification won't change economic REALITY.