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The timeline is inherently unpredictable, significant innovations are sudden but adopted widely within months. We don't know when a set of jobs will be automated away, and we will have relatively little warning on a political timeline.

There are other arguments for basic income too, at the core UBI is to continue the debate about welfare and inflation, and asking if our current Quantitive Easing policies are not themselves pressuring the economy in unforeseen ways.