Your response is one sided. Working is about the most basic way to provide you with an income. A country must have a queue of workers, because if no one works, no government will have any income. That’s over soon.
In addition: if someone has no work, a meaningful use of your time is not possible indefinitely. In short; if the army of non-workers increases, you are left with support professions such as psychologist, minister, doctor, lawyer, garbage collector ;-). That is of course exaggerated, but no country can run on those people.
I think that a great many companies are seriously dependent on automation in one way or another. Directly or indirectly. If a company has a ‘gap in the market’, then if it collapses, it is not just someone else who can jump into that gap. Certainly not if the new companies can also be hit by a ransomware attack.
It is obvious that they should not actually be paid, but if you as a company have no choice, then I just don’t know what I would do in such a situation.
