TL;DR —
Universal Basic Income, or UBI, means everyone gets a regular stipend from the government, enough to live on, paid for by taxes. The first "problem" is just a fantasy, a falsehood driven into our brains from an early age -- it used to be true, that you had to work to live, but automation can make that a flat out fiction. The real problem is going to be the people who profit from the current system stopping UBI from happening, or stunting it so badly that it fails.
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