My point was not whether the UK would be affected by automaton, it will. My point is that I cannot see the UK, with it's entrenched belief that all benefits are for scroungers, subscribing this scheme of handing out payments to everyone.
I think the long term reality will be it doesn't happen in the UK. My version is that most will have deserted the the green and pleasant land by then and left it to a small band of happy Little Englanders rejoicing in their black passports singing Rule Britannia to each other.
Being serious...