It's interesting that you basically just made Andrew Yang's argument for Universal Basic Income -- that we need to redistribute the wealth of automation to all of society.
This is the perfect example -- with a UBI the apprentice no longer needs to get paid to learn. They can live off of the UBI while learning, until they are good enough to charge for their services.
This is the perfect example -- with a UBI the apprentice no longer needs to get paid to learn. They can live off of the UBI while learning, until they are good enough to charge for their services.