Are there any serious alternatives?
Disclaimer: I’m a pirate.
Think about it: there is too little work for everyone, and it’s getting rapidly less due to automation. Imagine a nation where a lot of products (services) are produced (provided), the companies offering them make good money, but almost no jobs are available so that few people are employed… how should the citizens of that nation make a living?
One obvious solution to me is that the people (who are the nation!) simply decide to tax the companies for the opportunity to do business in their nation, and then share the tax revenue amongst each other. Bang! Universal basic income.
I’m interested in all possible solutions. After all I’m just a small engineer, and might not have the best grasp of how things “really are”.
Oh yeah, another option would be abolishing money a la Star trek.