People can only buy so many things, particularly people who aren't rich. The more robots that make our things, the less labor is needed, and the less things we can buy.

As long as we're focused on individual consumers buying things for themselves, there will be fewer and fewer jobs available or needed to make those things. While it may happen elsewhere, I'm very pessimistic about anything like a basic income happening in America.

But without basic income or a job, there's no effective mechanism to distribute cash. You need a job to receive cash.

Yet there could be many jobs available if we shifted the focus of our consumption from individual needs, and put some of that focus into community needs. Large projects. Infrastructure improvement and operation. Solar power. Transportation.

Just get it into our mindset that we're building and operating big stuff. Because providing for our individual needs will not provide jobs for most of us.