This article should be read by everyone. It highlights that the productivity that made the 1% super-rich has actually made the working class, who is responsible for said productivity, poorer. If salaries had kept pace with what happened in the 70s, workers would be making much more than $15 an hour.
We could have started UBI decades ago. It's a lack of will that presents us from lifting everyone above the poverty line, not a lack of automation. UBI is just a better way of treating people and investing in everyone.
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The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%—And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure
A report shows that a $50 trillion redistribution of income to benefit the richest has made America less healthy, resilient, and secure