In Sinclair Lewis' 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here," one of Buzz Windrip's populist campaign promises is to give every family $5,000 a year--about $117K in today's dollars--details to be determined later.
Spoiler alert: Buzz becomes a dictator on day one, and no one gets any money.
You’re unemployed in 2025? Tough shit. But we’ll definitely give all the unemployed people of the future free money. Because of robots or something.
We’re still working out the details.