If a large enough percent of the population becoming ZMP, it creates a large constituency for a basic income payment.

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While ZMP workers may or may not currently be a big problem, it seems quite possible that it could be in the future.

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While a future where robots have taken a lot of our jobs and we live off the dole might still be a really awesome future, I think one where robots vastly increase productivity and wages without causing huge numbers of ZMP workers is likely to be better.

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