Is Universal Basic Income the Key to Happiness in Asia?

Is Universal Basic Income the Key to Happiness in Asia?

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Recently I joined a discussion organized by a group of Japanese university students about making a career out of what you love to do. The students complained that after graduation, people they once looked up to at school became syachiku —a term that ridicules employees who show strong loyalty to a company at the expense of their private lives.

I worried that advice from the invited speakers—all successful adults—might sound condescending rather than encouraging, and make the already pessimistic students even more depressed. But one student’s words got my attention: Soon, artificial intelligence (AI) will replace unskilled […]

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