Yes, it is asinine to dismiss the entire conversation as stupid. These are very real and complex issues that aren't going to be solved by saying people should just get the right training or pick up their boot straps.

What does this say for working parents, or other people with fixed incomes and limited time? How should they acquire the necessary training to compete for a limited number of high-tech jobs? If denied education, their remaining choices are to go on welfare that depends on their unemployed status, or work in low quality jobs (quality having been driven down by the large amount of competition for the remaining jobs). Neither of these is a good option - quite frankly why should anyone want work their hands to the bone in dead-end jobs so the economy can screw them? The capitalist argument frequently forgets it's most potent weapon: incentive. 

UBI does not pay people not to work. It supplements income to guarantee security and inject market confidence.

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