In the face of growing automation which many governments and analysts believe will lead to a rapid rise in global unemployment levels a Canadian province has unanimously voted in favour of trialling a Universal Basic Income (UBI), a form of social security where all the citizens of a given state or country are guaranteed to regularly receive a sum of money in addition to the money they earn elsewhere.
As a concept UBI is naturally controversial which is why most governments, such as Finland, Holland, Japan, Scotland , the UK and USA are taking baby steps and voting on whether […]
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