Is Federal government funding this?

Ideally this would be state level.

But I don't know if that would work.

Subsidies don't work, the netherlands have them,

The people become convinced they're entitled to the money, as a bonus

And then complain their regular income is too low, completely forgetting they're getting extra money already

I don't know if any of this would work.

Do you offer this to people who choose to live in expensive areas?

The subsistence level wouldn't really permit them to survive there, but sure.

This isn't meant to insulate people from bad decisions.

I don't know if this would work, but I think it would be a better solution than UBI or the free market forcing a return to feudalism.

free market wouldn't create feudalism

There's nothing about a free market that requires a middle class.

Well if they would be able to comfortably live somewhere cheaper at 25k what's to stop them from spending an extra 10k just to have a more expesive lifestyle, ie. Living in the city

you generate the middle class, by having more work than workers

The work is automated.

so companies are forced to pay more for the better people

There isn't more work than workers.

hence my two solutions,

Space colonisation

Warfare

You either find them a new place to work labor-ish

Or you have them kill each other

"Space colonization" isn't a solution. It's magic as far as this conversation is concerned.

"A wizard did it" basically.

you know, i had that argument used against me when places like Patreon started

and youtube monetization

"No one will pay for that"

How's that doing these days.

ask Tim, he seems to be holding on well enough

"well enough" in that he's not starving. I don't think Tim is thriving.

How much travel is the guy doing these days?

How much is there to travel TO these days?

Tim already said he wont go to extremist rallies, only to neutral ones

or Sargon, he's not going anywhere, and earning enough

Tim makes really good money from what I understand

and dozens of famous pundits etc

granted the entry market is shrinking for YT and Punditry

Extra money goes to improving his content

So this justifies faith in space colonization solving economic problems that will happen in our lifetimes....

This is not a convincing argument.

neither is your "Oh I dont see it happening, so its magic" argument

Dozens of pundits are not starving due to patreon, therefore ???

Elon Musk, notorious optimist, claims that one-way travel to Mars will cost $250,000 in current dollars by 2050.

Being a little more realistic I think we can say that merely traveling to another planet will still be outside the means of a low-skilled worker for the remainder of my lifetime at least. Let alone being able to afford the cost of living there without a skill.

thats only cuz theres no race to get there ASAP