Mark Zuckerberg addressing Harvard graduates on May 25, 2017. Harvard University/YouTube
In his Harvard University commencement speech Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg advocated for exploring a system in which all people receive a standard salary just for being alive, no questions asked.
The system is known as "universal basic income," and it’s one of the trendiest economic theories of the last few years. Experiments in basic income have popped up in Kenya, the Netherlands, Finland, Canada, and San Francisco, California, among other places.Basic income advocates say the changing nature of work — from human labor to artificially-intelligent robots — combined […]
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