The Great Panic of 2020, aka pandemic, has driven robot automation to new levels because of worker shortages. What some are saying were “nightmarish jobs”, were jobs nonetheless and provided a living for now-displaced workers. With increasing use of robots, Universal Basic Income is seen as the only way to assuage the new class of unemployables. https://www.activistpost.com/2021/11/autonomous-truck-yard-has-more-robots-than-human-workers.html