Sooner, rather than later, many jobs could be wiped out and we will all need to be paid a basic income from the state to survive, according to the growing noise from influential business leaders, global organisations and activists.
Elon Musk, the outspoken entrepreneur behind Tesla’s electric (and semi-autonomous) cars, is the latest high-profile futurist to proclaim that automated, artificial intelligence and robotics mean that the provision of a universal basic income by the state is the inevitable and ‘reasonable’ way forward.
In essence, this could mean a fixed, regular payment to all citizens, no matter whether or not they had […]
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