Oil wells and truck charging station at dawn in Deadhorse, Alaska. What if we just give people money?
This is the question propelling several new books and that’s been taken up by more than one presidential candidate — foremost Andrew Yang , who has made universal basic income (UBI) the centerpiece of his campaign . An automated future looms on the horizon, and tech magnates and policy wonks are turning to UBI as a neat solution to the messy problem of technology-induced unemployment.
Yet when one considers the political ramifications of the largest and longest-running UBI experiment in America — Alaska’s […]
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