Enforcing lack of automation is about as hard as enforcing taxes, or more so. Either way, you either force the corps to give people jobs, or tax them to cover basic income, if you can't beat the corps in either, well, you have no government to speak of.
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Or, go to Europe, less orwellian, less fat fucks, and flat-earthers/anti-vax/creationists, and single payer health care in most of it, some places are considering basic income.
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agreed, and SIMs in europe aren't hard either, some countries made internet access a human right, which gums up the works...
On authoritarianism at least.