I am engaging in Pie-In-The-Sky thinking, but I think a lot of Americans would enjoy a Back To The Land lifestyle. A few acres, some education, some hard work and exercise, and you could live a life of freedom with minimal stress.
I am one of those who worry that AI and Automation will take a lot of people out of the productive national economy. I also worry that the government may provide some sort of Universal Basic Income — which would be bad for a number of reasons and which would also be insufficient for any sort of normal Middle Class lifestyle.
Well, allow people to have a little land, teach them advanced farming techniques, and give them some level of UBI and just let them live their lives. That would be better than warehousing people in the Inner Cities and giving them EBT.
The Amish do well. Israeli Kibbutzim do well. For those who want to do this, it can be a good life.
African immigrant wrote a letter to his family back home after seeing American suburbs. “...the Americans have built homes surrounded by large areas of carefully cultivated grasses. There are even underwater pipes for irrigation. Yet there are no sheep, cattle or goats. Instead huge machines come and harvest the grasses regularly . But the harvest is mostly burned. They also don’t drink the water from the pipes but instead drink water from platic bottles....”