We are speeding towards a wall. We can either find a way to turn or crash into it and suffer grievous injuries.
I think universal basic income is inevitable. The government will capitulate to the idea once they are faced with the alternative of societal collapse.
They won't do shit till the white collar jobs start being replaced by AI, or until folks are rioting.
I really think the Deep State wants folks to start rioting. It gives a great excuse for Martial Law.
Part of me thinks a lot of the corporate media has purposely been exaggerating the scope of the "immigrant crisis," so that when these societal displacements inevitably come, they have a tangible target to blame it on. It is an old canard for the ruling class.
I'm not saying there isn't truly a lawless illegal alien problem, but it is probably being purposely engineered. Once everyone has trouble finding work, the aliens will go home.
The Romans used it, and the fascists used it. This strategy of tension started with the election of Obama, they made sure it continued by giving Trump a platform, having the media give him so much airtime. Turning race against race, straight against gay, men against women, young against old, everything but the having to seek real solutions to intractable problems that are overwhelming the policy wonks.
They are looking at history here.
It is far easier to get society to turn on itself and declare martial law, than to have it turn on the elites and have an entire reordering of the system.
These elites like their positions of power. The only thing they want is a system where they get MORE power. They will never engineer a system that gives the people more freedom, fraternity, civil liberties and civil rights, and more economic and social equality. They don't give two shits about a real free market, crony capitalism and socialism for the rich has gotten them this far, why would they voluntarily surrender it now?