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Universal Basic Income (UBI) has come up recently as a talking point, as many large manufacturing businesses are moving away from the usage of humans to using automated machines, which require less (such as wages, work hours, work conditions, etc.) for more (output and production). As these jobs are being relegated away to machines, there would be a smaller quantity of jobs in the market, almost ensuring that many people would be out of jobs or even competitive businesses, for those who cannot afford to make the change. UBI was created in a sense to solve this problem, as it provides just enough money to each family for them to be able to survive, and if there are no open jobs, to live at least comfortably.
The extent that the government should provide the UBI entirely depends on the businesses, and also the government itself. Firstly, businesses can choose whether or not they would relegate their human jobs to robots. These companies may receive backlash from the general public, especially when job proportions dip heavily lower then the population size. However, they would be able to manufacture more, higher-quality, and essentially make more profit off of the machines. The second part of the UBI is the government itself. The UBI is rather taxing on the government's budget, for it must be proportionalized by not only the intake of funding, but also the regulation of the funding to certain spending areas. A higher percentile of people relying heavily on the UBI would force the government in many cases to drop amount of benefits, as the funding may not be there.
In essence, the best way for the government to provide Universal Basic Income is too, in fact, not provide it at all. The government must be able to balance automated jobs with jobs that can be done with humans, while relegating enough funds to companies to allow them to make enough of a profit to keep their production factories within the United States. Essentially, Politics would play a heavy role in regulating the rise of the machines, as other countries may be forced into keeping their traditional jobs instead of creating automated jobs, or even have their jobs taken away that were before provided by US companies in an effort to give the US citizens enough job openings. However, in a real life scenario, this is not ideal, and in the waning age of the usage of humans, the failure to create a functioning system in hopes to help the ordinary citizen to survive would be ever pressing indeed. If ever the government should provide Universal Basic Income, they will have to work closely with companies residing in the US, and to balance the industrial rights of the companies to expand and technologically advance, with the rights of the citizens and their right to survive.
