content: In many ways fields like law will be some of the easiest fields for automation to take over. Assimilating massive amounts of occasionally contradicting or ambiguous precedent and then applying that to produce a probabilistic result is more or less the high level definition of how deep learning systems work. In any case law will certainly be taken over before plumbing will. I think it's also narrow minded to suggest that productivity requires any sort of IQ. Not only is IQ somewhat farcical, but it only tends to relate to one form of intelligence in any case. And stating that half of people have a lower than average IQ is tautological. That's the definition of IQ. IQ is measured relatively with the median set to 100 with a standard deviation of 15 points. Even if every single person was literally Albert Einstein - half of people would have a lower than average IQ. The small variances in results, noise, would simply be amplified to create a normal distribution fitting the current standard model. In any case fields like art, music, entertainment certainly don't map against IQ. And the great thing about basic income is the massive potential for entrepreneurship. Imagine somebody is a decent hobbyist carpenter. He might make a few pieces here and there that he sells, but can't take the risk of trying to do it for a living. Basic income would almost entirely mitigate the risk and enable him to give this a go as a living. The basic income would also ensure that the amount necessary to be in the black would be minimized - enabling somebody who otherwise may be trapped in go-nowhere jobs to have a go of starting his own business. Wealth inequality is not a bad thing when there is economic mobility. Right now nearly everybody born poor in the US will die poor. And nearly everybody born rich will die rich. By contrast the countries with the greatest socioeconomic mobility are the countries that many in American consider socialist (they're not) : Denmark, Norway, Finland, etc. And it's not small scale mobility, Norway for instance has more billionaires per capita than the US. I think it's increasingly clear that a huge part of economic mobility is a safety net. The US strongly deters people from taking the risks necessary for success since the price of failure is so great. And we're increasingly loading everybody up with debt from day 1 ensuring years down the road when they might be interested in a business loan - nope, shouldda been born rich or not gone that fancy education.