To help put you at ease:
- USATODAY
You do realize what is funding Alaska's dividend, right? Yang is trying to fund UBI with automation. I see too many problems with it. First and foremost, whomever controls automation will control the government and essentially the people. If you think you hate big corporation, just wait until your UBI depends on them. Some people will stop working altogether if they think UBI is enough. That means that check you are waiting for at the end of the month is controlled by Ford, or GM, or Boeing, etc. Secondly, what happens when these industries decide to go their separate way or new technological advances change automation? In other words, automation goes bust.
You people only think on the surface level. You are shallow and do not have the wisdom to see deadly unintended consequences. That's what laziness coupled with greed does.
It's like universal healthcare. Do you really want the government deciding your healthcare? Once they control it, what is stopping them from issuing mandatory vaccination (and I don't mean the typical Rubella and Measles). I mean rolling out tests from big pharma companies. Low income areas will for sure be used as guinea pigs.
You don't think big pharma will donate to a political candidate in the hopes that the government will issue mandates where people are used as guinea pigs?