Fuck it, yo. How about an unconditional basic income?

Would probably never work in the United States, and even so -- we might be headed there.

There's a lot to unpack here politically and culturally and sociologically, and I'm probably not intelligent enough to do it in type of fundamentally-valuable way. But I'll give it a shot, because the topic is interesting to me.

Generally, you need to start with these assumptions. These vary by culture -- here's a good example of that -- but in general:

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