Thanks for the discussion. I didn’t have a link between UBI and Pinker, just read the article the same day as the others. It was just about the AI.

I didn’t read the entirety of the article about the theory that "keeps failing", but think the idea was that the displacement of workforce is always in transition as technology advances. We never get to a point where all task are accomplished through automation. I agree with you that people want to be productive and believe they will continue to be so regardless of how much or what gets automated.