Universal Basic Income Needed to Break ‘Addiction to Economic Growth Killing Us’

Universal Basic Income Needed to Break ‘Addiction to Economic Growth Killing Us’

As some tech giants throw their weight behind the idea of a universal basic income, one anthropologist says it’s a key component of a strategy to break the “addiction to economic growth [that] is killing us” and the planet.

Offering his views this week on BBC’s “Viewsnight,” Jason Hickel, an anthropologist at the London School of Economics and author of books including The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions , says “we can’t have infinite growth on a finite planet.”

That argument—which others have made as well—should be clear by evidence of the “climate change, deforestation, and […]

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