it leaves out the concept that most people actually enjoy being productive and get satisfaction out of their accomplishments. Even if they have a basic income, who wants a population that just sits around all the time and doesn't have anything to do?

This is just utterly sad.

When cars replaced horses, blacksmiths, buggy makers.
Good highways replaced trains.
Thrashing machines replaced hand labor to bring in crops.
Chain saws replaced hand saws and axes.
Wood mills replace hand cut boards.
and the list goes on.
People will find stuff to do/make. They are a very inventive species.

did the welfare reform. There was an essentially a guaranteed income. People had money in circulation. There was subsidized housing and daycare. The economy was good because there was a lot of money moving around. But the wealthy got tired of the "welfare Cadillacs being driven around. But the money was moving up and down the food chain.

The low-growth "Long Depression" that we've been in since 2009 or so and the lack of "private sector" response to the Trillions of dollars that the government pumped into the economy for, basically, nothing has left governments and central banks with nothing to fight the next recession, except this. It's also popular on both the left and right of the economic spectrum, so it will happen. Another sign that capitalism is on its last legs.