I just finished listening to Annie Lowrey’s new book “Give People Money,” which is about the policy idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI), and it got me thinking. What if many of the jobs for which we prepare people now are going away in a few years, to be replaced with AI-driven automation?
The question could go in several directions, of course. Some supporters of UBI, especially some of the tech evangelists, see it as a sort of life support for the many who will have been rendered economically valueless by the robots. If we have self-driving trucks, the […]
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