Universal Basic Income and the philosophy of work

There’s an interesting article over on The Week. It’s by Damon Linker, and it’s about “ The spiritual ruin of a universal basic income “.

Universal Basic Income (UBI), as you may know, is the proposal for the government to give everyone a basic living wage, whether they work or not. Combined with universal access to affordable medical care, it would remove the two main worries of modern life.

Part of the reasoning behind it is that artificial intelligence and robotic automation (AI&R), are killing all the jobs, and we need to either find something for people to do, or pay […]

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