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Basic Income is Utopianism. It's appeal is a populist reaction to the uncertain times we live in. No different from rightwing populism such as Trump.

The other problem is its association with Socialism, which has been democratically rejected by the vast majority of countries.

So it really doesn't have much going for it.

The loudest advocates say that we must do something because technology will eat all the jobs, but that is just modern Ludditism.

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The idea that those who contributed to society to make it what it is should see any of the benefits instead of being tossed aside like a rag is not "Utopianism". People lose their jobs TODAY from automation, more jobs in America were lost from automation than "China". Those people may be too old to retrain, and why aren't afforded any share of the benefits from automation? Why when they did the labor to work the mines, factories, and trucks, to bring us to where we are?

Were they not compensated for their time when they did the work?

If I, as a web engineer, help create the next facebook for someone and I'm paid my wage during the time, and this new facebook somehow obsoletes me, are you saying I should be entitled to gain more from that, even though I was already paid what I agreed to be paid when the work was done?

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