RE: Universal Basic Income = Enslaving Yourself Willingly To Government
While I agree that UBI is not the way to go (at least forced UBI delivered by the government). I don't think the days of everybody growing their own food to provide for themselves is the way to go either. You have to wear some seriously rose tinted glasses to look back on times where most people grew their own food (and really, there was never such a time anyway) and believe that the world was better off than it is today. The world still needs people to make clothes, build houses, generate electricity (unless you want to go back to a time before electricity anyway), and numerous other things. It's hard, if not impossible for an individual to do all of that. The fact of the matter is that large farms dedicated to the task are far more efficient and can produce far more and more cheaply than every individual trying to do it. There are huge advantages to specialization. People today are far better off than they were in the middle ages in just about every way imaginable.
I don't think anybody should steal anything but technology provides a far higher standard of living without stealing anything. Jobs operating a backhoe haven't been around for thousands of years but why would we want to go back to everybody using a shovel?
We don't have to chose between UBI and being luddites. Automation is not the enemy.
in 2019 automating tasks like automatically feeding chickens/pigs/cows/etc saves time. You can still have all the same tech you currently have, I am not advocating we all become Amish and stop using technology.
Yes, but my point is that someone has to work to make and maintain all that technology. That technology likely would never have existed if not for specialization. Even before the industrial revolution there was specialization and it generally improved life for everyone. Not everyone is going to have the time to maintain a farm sufficient to feed yourself and your family and work another job on top of that. It's far more efficient for some people to produce extra food while others work to do other things. Even within farming, it is more efficient to specialize with certain crops or animals. I'm not saying it's impossible to do what you are suggesting but I think it's pretty impractical, especially for the size of population that exists today. Plus it just creates other problems. If your primary source of nutrition is from your own farm, what happens when some unforeseen or unavoidable event ruins your crop or kills your animals?