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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Eventually there will not be enough employed consumers to be able to buy those products your pumping out at record rates.

That's when they'll all combine and become Buy n Large and create a corporate "basic income" just so that people can keep buying crap.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

The corporations will bever agree to any sort of UBI until there is blood in the streets and they are forced to.