Why the World Would End without Universial Basic Income

The idea of Universal Basic Income never crossed my mind until a couple days ago when I saw a post by @dantheman. My initial reaction to the concept of a Universal Basic Income is that there would be no way for it to work out. My first thought when I saw his topic on Basic Income

was a socialist approach to controlling society. After reading the article @dantheman recently wrote. I started to agree and see he made several great points about how to create Universal Basic Income. He points out in the posts he has been making that with cryptocurrency we might be closer to achieving this. I started to look into the concept on my own, I now realize this is more than just a way to control a society. There are several key people saying we need Universal Basic Income. @dantheman is showing how we can get there.

The First article I came across was on my search was:   http://www.investopedia.com/news/musk-says-universal-basic-income-inevitable-tsla-0/. This article came out yesterday, Musk, Tesla CEO, said "Universal Basic income" is inevitable. Being his company among many others uses mainly robots to build, not people. We are starting to see the emergence of self driving cars. Google being the largest company involved in the project, that I know of. Other smaller companies such as GM, and Lyft have teamed up to getting the self driving vehicles on the road.

While looking I found an article where GM is testing out its new self driving cars in Arizona. http://fortune.com/2016/08/09/cruise-automation-arizona-gm/. With these kinds of changes to the auto industry how long before we no longer get to drive. Then next step would be the commercial vehicles. These are areas where the jobs pay good, but people are still driving the vehicles. Just look at the accident report for 2015, in which we reached a 50 year high according to http://www.newsweek.com/2015-brought-biggest-us-traffic-death-increase-50-years-427759.

Since the self driving vehicles have been around, according to Google https://google-self-driving-car-incidents.silk.co/. We see the number of deaths that are traffic related last year was at a 50 year high. In California there are about 50 self driving cars. They have only been in minor accidents where no one was seriously hurt. The preliminary results show that others ran into the self driving car. So the self driving vehicles are showing better results in safety.

With these steps taking place to reduce the need of humans in the work place, as well as on the road. Means there are going to be people that are out of work and unable to find employment. Thus we need Universal Basic Income to make it so people can continue to take care of themselves.

If we cut these jobs out the lower class is not going to be able to provide for themselves.

Switzerland was able to vote on the ability to try a Basic Income, but they voted against it. The reason they voted against the measure must have to do with the surrounding countries. As @dantheman said we need to start looking at these options now, before it is to late.

The ideas that @dantheman has been proposing do not include a form of taxation as he states https://steemit.com/basicincome/@dantheman/how-does-universal-basic-insurance-compare-to-universal-basic-income. 

As for me, I am all for these ideas that @dantheman is proposing, I hope that we can see these implemented.

Thank you @dantheman for all your hard work.

And Than you if your read this far.

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