Strongly holding a view and arguing for it doesn ' t make one a troll . It ' s immature and smug to not see that . Sure , things are improving , but the risk and the danger here are that the pace of automation starts to outpace and outperform human labor and that it ' s impossible to retrain people as quickly as their jobs are being lost . Automation can ' t outpace human labor . It enhances human labor . And of course it outperforms human labor at the task that it automates . A power loom outperformed manual weaving by human workers . That ' s what all automation does . That doesn ' t make human labor less valuable . On the contrary , by increasing production , it raises how much employers can pay workers to do the tasks that are not automatable . and I don ' t see you or any other hardcore capitalist offering anything better than a prayer that new jobs will appear . There are a myriad of possible solutions , but the only thing us hardcore capitalists insist upon is that these solutions be voluntary , and not through authoritarian force . In other words , if people want a basic income , they would be free to create some kind of voluntary organization , to which they contractually commit to paying X percent of their income each month , and in exchange , the organization guarantees each person in the organization Y amount of income each month . Or they can contractually form a workers coop , that invests the coop ' s profit each year into stocks , and pays out the dividends to the workers . Overtime , these dividends can grow to a level that would qualify as a basic income . The point is , each person should be free to try what they want , and no person should be forcibly enrolled into a redistribution program against their will . I ' d like to see more experimentation and more effort to get technologies into people ' s hands that make them not just able to look up information , but actually provide them with cheap and decentralized means of providing their own food , water , energy , and healthcare . Yes this would actually stand a chance of being effective , whereas forcible redistribution programs like the proposed universal welfare UBI would most likely make the masses worse off , by making them more dependent , and less capable of providing for themselves .