Economics. Like trying to keep jobs in the US so that people get paid more. Like, how is it not a benefit to, as a nation, receive the products of very cheap labor from other countries? It's like if I paid you $5 to paint my house instead of doing it myself, only on the collective level of nations instead.

And people worried about automation taking jobs, same principle. As a people we get more for less with automation, so the obvious solution is to just use that gain we get from the extra efficiency to pay the people we're worried about not having jobs..

I mean, I'm sure there are issues with that idea--how do you decide whom to pay and whom not to pay? But still, the complete lack of compassion for others, sharing, etc. is what gives rise to this paradox. I mean, if we didn't have that serious lack of sharing and empathy and instead mutually use each other on a mass scale a la capitalism, then everybody would get some kind of UBI and these issues wouldn't be issues..