I was once talking with one of my classmates and he said that in the future, there will be universal basic income implemented by entire world. I was not convinced at that time and thought he is just being stupid but given the layoffs happening and massive amount of unemployment, I am thinking about this possibility. What do you say?

  • jnod4@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    Extremely unfair to who? We’re the last generations to be employed and have jobs

    • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
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      7 minutes ago

      We’re the last generations to be employed and have jobs

      We were also supposed to run out of oil or starve to death due to overpopulation, depending on what period you check. The newest tren is “we’re running out of lithium for batteries”

      Point is predictions like this almost never come true. There’s too many variables in the long run.