Working poverty is a problem that a "go get a job" mentality entirely ignores and that I think many people just pretend doesn't even exist. A job is not necessarily a ticket out of poverty, neither is working 40 hours per week, or even 80 hours. I hope that as automation continues to eliminate jobs faster and faster, this problem will no longer be able to be ignored.

We can't just tell 3 million unemployed truckers to go get a job, and if we're all competing against each other for the jobs that remain, we'll be bidding down the price of human labor in a race to the bottom.

It just makes no sense for automation to result in people working longer and longer hours for less and less money instead of shorter hours for more money. Basic income brings sanity to technological unemployment.