Automation is going to put a lot of the already shit paying jobs at risk or completely remove them, it's already happened with front desk dealing with calls with the call routing stuff (press 1 for ...etc) universal income needs to become a thing before more people are pushed out of jobs otherwise it's gonna be a fucking mess.
How do we pay for it? actually taxing multinationals and the rich.
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@LottieVixen Actually
Paradoxically, this hasn't been the case except in the short-term, however, with sluggish economic growth in many sectors, it may very well begin to be the case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment