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It's highly unlikely there is going to be some kind of societal collapse. When people draw a link between social decay and unemployment, they're not talking about like, a few percentage points on a graph. They're talking about having literally tens of millions of people unemployed, huge swathes of people with nothing to lose. That's not going to happen. The economy will find them something to do. It might be worse than what we have today and it might be better. It's unlikely to be much much better and it's unlikely to be much much worse.
Or if not, the politicians will. Or they can't/won't and a civil war breaks out (probably something about developing resources that the federal government would prefer not be developed; environmentalism has always been a "let them eat cake"-type of philosophy), but even more things need to go wrong in order for that to happen.
It's worth noting that tens of millions of people unemployed with nothing to their name and nothing to lose was a pretty good description of the political situation in the US nearly 100 years ago; "welfare", "unemployment insurance", and "minimum wage" (all of which were implemented around that time) form the bulk of what us moderns call "UBI".
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