I have a titanium white ~~ bowler ~~ derbyEdit <| sep |> Who will be taxed ? I personally prefer a Negative Income Tax implementation for the moment , which requires no raising of taxes . The rest of your questions rest on the tax assumption . There are also models for a UBI with a clawback rate , which I also think would be a reasonable implementation , but at the moment none of them require tax increases . As automation takes hold , I expect that some form of taxed distribution will have to take hold and that it will be something that happen universally , so companies won ' t be able to move around to get away from it . If automation gets that strong , then it ' ll be everywhere . If it doesn ' t get that strong , then there ' s no concern and we can stop at a negative income tax implementation .