As someone who has been working full time for 30 years and never got anywhere in life, the idea of me and my wife just being able to stay home and enjoy our time together and still receive enough money to live off of sounds amazing.

But imagine your government starts doing something you don’t agree with and you join protests against it. Then they use facial recognition to see who the dissidents are and shut off their income. What’s worse, they deny access to the money you already have. We’ve already seen this even now.

UBI and digital currency would give governments more control over populations. Nothing like financially choking someone to get them to comply.

I tried getting down with IOT and automation. Had one of these and obviously the first thing I did was to try to use it as an alarm.

The next morning when it went off and I was bleary eyed trying to think of what command would shut it off, it just kept telling me to use the app so I unplugged it and haven’t use it since.