A universal basic income won’t solve the problem of jobs, or the lack of them, in the coming ‘post work’ world

A universal basic income won’t solve the problem of jobs, or the lack of them, in the coming ‘post work’ world

Jobs like this at an assembly plant in Mexico may disappear in the coming “post work” world of artificial intelligence, but should all people be paid a standard wage by governments? Photo: Reuters Surveillance cameras in Beijing. China is thought to deploy about 172 million such cameras and accounts for 43 per cent of a global US$47 billion business. Photo: Simon Song As a working class kid in the UK in the 1960s, the unrelenting financial struggle meant that every school or university holiday, I knuckled down to summer jobs, winter jobs – any jobs – to make ends […]

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