Basic Income

Think: welfare, only extended to the financially meek, mild and/or weak.

All those robots replacing jobs at McDonalds? Well, those people have to eat somewhere, somehow. There simply won't be jobs for them in the future. So Basic Income is a political hot potato being tossed around that suggests that every legal-ish citizen of the U.S. should be entitled to some pilot light amount of money each month. Call it two grand. They can scrape by on that amount living in a trailer in central Mississippi...or they can get a job.

Naysayers worry that people on the margin will give up fighting to have a real living or career. Yaysayers claim that it'll prevent crime, starvation, and resentment of the Kardashians.