[Kushan]

You're right carth, those are very real problems faced by today's generation. I know the topic will go down like a lead balloon on this forum, but it's one of the reasons we need to seriously consider the Universal Basic Income.

At some point, machines are going to automate people out of jobs and it's going to be cheaper to just get a machine to do it. We need to be prepared for that.

If people were on a UBI, then the pandemic would have wrecked a lot fewer people's lives as their income wouldn't have been affected.

Of course, it's a radical proposal and there's always the topic of "well who's going to pay for it?" and I'd propose those super-rich tech companies that are putting people out of a job start by paying their fare share of tax, then we'll see where we are.

I say this all as someone who has a lot of job security at one of those tech companies.