The current crop of basic income trials fall painfully short of holding society-changing potential.
Jordan Pearson
May 2 2018, 2:00pm Screengrab: YouTubeUniversal basic income sounds utopian, and in some iterations it is: A livable income paid to every person, perhaps as a way to distribute the profits from automated labour to all of society, that could wean us off of capitalism and put us on the path to a Star Trek -style future where waged work is a bad memory.But some on the political left, a group to whom basic income should inherently appeal according to news […]
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