Most workers could become obsolete over a relatively short period of time (years, not decades) due to AI and robotics. Yes, UBI will be inflationary - just like Covid stimulus checks were inflationary. However, mass job losses and AI + robotics are deflationary, so UBI effectively undoes the deflation and adds inflation on top. They effectively steal most of the productivity that would have otherwise flowed to society. UBI only makes sense when coupled with CBDCs and Digital ID. Each UBI recipient must: - have a legal identity, - be KYC'ed in a compliant wallet, - link to an address/jurisdiction. The shift produces a large, semi-dispossessed class who: - can't rebuild real assets easily, - are structurally less employable in the old sense, - are still needed as consumers and as "consent mass". The question for states is: - "How do we stop these people from becoming an unmanageable insurgency, while still keeping them in the system and consuming?" The answer is UBI. Problem: manage surplus humans in an automated, high-control economy. Solution 1: UBI. Solution 2: Vaccines and war.