we need a universal basic income and progressive tax rates urgently if we want to avoid the world turning into a Gotham City kind of inequal shitshow.
Not really. IMHO the idea of universal basic income is not an actual solution, it's a soporific to passivate people until all their power is drained from them. What we really need is a Butlerian Jihad, to make technology and technologists subordinate to society, instead of letting society be subordinate to technologists and their technology (and the capital they serve and/or control).
Anyway, if we see it coming, it'd be silly not to prepare for it in some fashion.
And I'm guessing once the evidence is strong enough to convince you, it will be too late to do anything about it.
I'm not gonna trust the pyromaniacs with the next bridge if I can help it.
> The bridge is currently burning and much of the world still doesn't notice its being burnt alive.
Citation required.