> The author is so naive to think that after eliminating the dependency on labor that the wealthy class will launch UBI so that they will still have customers.

Exactly. There is no UBI. It is has always been a unsustainable utopian failure once tried at a large scale.

> What will happen is they will leave us to die.

That is the hard truth.

Unfortunately, 2030 will make this so obvious that we have to prepare for when a crash that will wipe out many to the point where the divide will be widened.