The American workforce is going to change dramatically as robots and automation continue to take the place of humans. To combat that, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar has pledged nearly half a million dollars to test a universal basic income program.
The cash will come from the Omidyar Network, the tech mogul’s philanthropic investment firm and be doled out to people living in Kenya through a program called GiveDirectly. The money will be used to run a 12-year pilot program to test the feasibility of universal basic income.
Through the program, a group of 6,000 Kenyan citizens will be granted regular stipends […]
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