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No, we really shouldn't be, but it's also not an option given who's in charge of government currently. Also it's unfortunate, but UBI will always be this "radical socialist/communist" idea to people until automation starts tangibly affecting unemployment.
Eh, overall, I think that UBI will be needed once automation hits hard. But right now it's a bad idea. We just can't afford it.
When was the last time a Republican raised the minimum wage? And the US is mostly service jobs, corporations cut down to skeleton crews years ago. There's been no benevolent meeting between megacorps where they decided to raise the median (or minimum) wage to my knowledge, either. With the recent tax cuts most corporations just bought back their own stock.
Less Taxes=More businesses=Scarcity of labor in a certain skill-field=Higher wages for people in that skill-field
On top of that, there would be a lower strain on the economy that would continue to exist, as the businesses that stay would, in theory at least, actually be paying for the public services that they were using, rather than leeching off of them while profiting off of their own product
Could you go more in depth on what you mean by leeching off of public services?