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CMV: I think that we should abolish the minimum wage and replace it with universal basic income.

We are rapidly reaching a point where automation will completely replace all entry level and medium to low skill jobs. As a result, it will be incredibly difficult for people to raise themselves up out of poverty in our current system. Only so many of us can become programmers and/or contribute on a financially meaningful scale.

I am not advocating that everyone should be given an extremely large amount of money, only enough for them to cover basic human necessities such as food, shelter, and some form of basic healthcare. Once these needs have been met, the individual should then be responsible to work for any additional wants/needs.

By meeting some of the most basic human needs, I believe this system would help relieve the biggest stressors on the individual and make them more competent to negotiate a fair wage. As a result, I think that minimum wage would no longer be necessary and might even be a hinderance to commerce and building wealth.
gpt
> We are rapidly reaching a point where automation will completely replace all entry level and medium to low skill jobs.

We've been saying this for decades, if not over a century at least now. We'll still have many things that humans do far better than robots for at least the next few decades. We'll even see a rise in mildly technical jobs of working on machines/robots because there will be far more breakdowns that robots themselves cannot fix for a long time.

But that aside, how does removing the minimum wage help? Perhaps you could lower it, but then that'd really depend on where you live still.

Also, have you figured out the math on basic income? There's too many people and no where near enough government income to pay for that, and until society has far more mechanical workers than humans, that just won't be feasible.