Lawrie McFarlane: Right to work should be basic human entitlement

Lawrie McFarlane: Right to work should be basic human entitlement

Digital technologies such as robotics, artificial Machine learning, artificial intelligence and the rise of robotics all offer alternatives to human employment that in many respects are more efficient, writes Lawrie McFarlane. As the COVID-19 epidemic ravages our global economy, it’s becoming clearer by the day that the world of work will not survive in the form we once knew it.

No doubt some types of employment will morph into variants not greatly different than before. Tasks built around the telephone or Internet can be carried out from home. We’re already seeing that, though even here the social isolation involved will […]

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