UBI isn't a leftist idea

It's a more radical version of welfare capitalism. Socialism is about worker control of the means of production. This would mean all the factories and agricultural land and cloud servers, etc would be owned by the people who work there. UBI is simply keeping the poor alive through subsidies. We do it already through all sorts of things. For example food prices are heavily subsidized. It's just taking that idea and taking it to the logical extreme.

It's not leftist at all. Leftists may support it because it will improve the living conditions for the bottom class. But fundamentally it does nothing to put the means of production into the hands of the workers. A leftist idea would be for example forcing all private companies to become cooperatives.

I agree with you that things are going to get ugly very soon. Our society simply isn't equipped to handle this dramatic transformation that is coming. I think we will likely see some sort of serious war going forward as well. I'm just glad I live far enough away from the likely nuclear bomb targets where I probably wouldn't die immediately, lol.

I think UBI is really the only solution that will be able to maintain our current capitalist system and way of life. Anything else would essentially lead to revolt. Idle hands are the devil's plaything. If 50% of the young people in the country aren't working, you're either going to see a massive prison complex or a militant revolt. Probably both.

UBI however would further our jump into dystopia. Imagine a society where the bottom 80% survive off of the government's hand. They live in ghettos, segregated from the people who own capital. Majority of the country live in abject poverty getting only basic necessities. Starting to sound a lot like 1984...