Elon Musk, speaking at the World Government Summit 2017 in Dubai said that universal basic income is going to be necessary in the face of automation replacing human jobs at a massive scale, clarifying that these are not things he wishes would happen, these are things he thinka are probably going to happen. The deeper question to ponder upon is once you have universal basic income, what happens to people's sense of purpose in life?

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