This cause is based on the wrong assumption: products and services are NOT getting more expensive (aside from health care and housing but I predict those too will become more affordable thanks to bots). And it is precisely b/c of automation that prices go down (the fact that you pay hundreds for an iPhone that costs tens to make has more to do with you being a victim of marketing and less to do with robots making the phone). Also, b/c many products and services that we now consume are digital (zero real cost of 'making' a copy) we need less money each month to consume them. Also, not to be surprised: good healthy home cooked meals are über cheap. And don't ignore this trend: the sharing economy. In sum: as everything commoditizes and we share products and services, we need less money to live. Maybe then what we need is to share jobs (work partime) and control personal expenses, until we reach Jacque Fresco's Resource Based Economy (google The Venus Project, b/c guess what, searching, finding and learning new information is nowadays almost always free!).<p>So pleeeease don't ask for a free basic income, I certainly don't want to pay more taxes ;)