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Mark Zuckerberg Suggests the Government Should Give Everyone Free Cash

Mark Zuckerberg Suggests the Government Should Give Everyone Free Cash

By David Ramos/Getty Images. As Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg chips away at his New Year’s resolution to visit all 50 U.S. states—a tour that continues to raise questions about his political ambitions—he stopped in Alaska with his wife, Priscilla Chan, to highlight Silicon Valley’s favorite new policy proposal: giving everyone free money. Alaska, unlike other states, has its own form of basic income, known as the Permanent Fund Dividend, which allocates some of the state’s oil revenue to a fund that gets disbursed to Alaskan residents. Each Alaskan receives a chunk of money through the program; in 2016, every […]

Human qualities could produce jobs as automation intensifies

Human qualities could produce jobs as automation intensifies

It’s fashionable — and, in a way, understandable — to fear that robots and algorithms are primed to take away too many jobs to laugh off. Machines, the logic goes, are becoming so much better than humans at churning out products, even the kind that require skilled labor, that soon it’ll be a liability to employ people. Today’s trendy despair will certainly ensure we won’t be surprised if bots really take over the world. But the lack of creative and classical thinking about humans’ myriad advantages is now so pronounced that it’s hard to credit the pessimists.

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How can Britain solve its productivity ‘puzzle’?

How can Britain solve its productivity 'puzzle'?

When analysts and business commentators talk about economic productivity the understandable reaction of most people is to switch off.

As obscure, abstruse economic concepts go, productivity is right up there. No one really – not even economists – really understands why it goes up and down, but all are convinced it’s very important indeed.

But maybe we should all be taking more interest in the concept. Leaving aside debates about inequality and relative poverty, the real determinant of the prosperity of a population over time is probably its productivityThe UK’s comparatively poor productivity rate, which according to the latest figures has […]

Mark Zuckerberg Keeps Pushing For Universal Basic Income, But Not From His Fortune

Mark Zuckerberg Keeps Pushing For Universal Basic Income, But Not From His Fortune

Wikipedia Commons Mark Zuckerberg is very willing to spend taxpayer money, but has little interest in parting with his own fortune. His lust for UBI reveals Zuckerberg’s immaturity and naïveté. UBI is tantamount to slavery for the ‘unemployable”class from which there will be no escape. ⁃ TN Editor

Following a trip to Alaska, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently wrote a blog post defending — yet again — the idea of establishing a form of basic income in the U.S.

Zuckerberg said he supported Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend, which pools money from the state’s oil revenue and returns it to residents […]

The U.S. Should Learn From This State’s Basic Income Program

The U.S. Should Learn From This State’s Basic Income Program

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Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg learned a thing or two about universal basic income from his recent trip to Alaska. The entrepreneur believes the rest of the U.S. should take a closer look at how the northern state makes basic income work. An Approach Worth Emulating

An excursion is always a learning experience. That was certainly true for Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan when they visited Alaska. The social media entrepreneur was impressed by the various social programs he found in America’s Last Frontier, particularly a basic income initiative that […]

How the Universal Basic Income Stifles Human Flourishing

How the Universal Basic Income Stifles Human Flourishing

Billionaire Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks UBI is a fantastic idea. Here’s why he’s wrong. Recently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the commencement address at Harvard University, in which he advocated the Universal Basic Income (UBI), a concept in which the government gives every adult a check — not for working, but for merely existing. Following his trip to Alaska this week, Zuckerberg announced that the UBI is a “bipartisan idea” worth exploring. But is it?

Zuckerberg is a Harvard drop-out billionaire who made his money from a technology concept that leverages the basic human need to be heard by […]

How the Universal Basic Income Stifles Human Flourishing — The Patriot Post

How the Universal Basic Income Stifles Human Flourishing — The Patriot Post

Recently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the commencement address at Harvard University, in which he advocated the Universal Basic Income (UBI), a concept in which the government gives every adult a check — not for working, but for merely existing. Following his trip to Alaska this week, Zuckerberg announced that the UBI is a “bipartisan idea” worth exploring. But is it?

Zuckerberg is a Harvard drop-out billionaire who made his money from a technology concept that leverages the basic human need to be heard by others. It thrives upon social pressure and the desire to prove oneself and one’s worthiness […]

Jeremy Corbyn: UK must embrace technological change

Jeremy Corbyn: UK must embrace technological change

The state should work with business to help the UK maximise the benefits of automation and other technological changes, Jeremy Corbyn has said.

The Labour leader said he was not "one of the doom-mongers" who thought new technology would "inevitably herald an era of mass unemployment".

But he argued that adapting the UK for the jobs of the future "can’t simply be left to the market".A recent report suggested robots could affect 30% of British jobs by 2030.The PwC study estimated that nearly a third of existing jobs in the UK were potentially under threat from automation, compared with 38% in […]

Study Finds Job Automation to Slam Low-Wage Cities Such as Las Vegas, El Paso

As much as 65% of jobs in some metropolitan areas of the United States could be automated within the next 20 years, according to new research from the Institute for Spatial Economic Analysis, conducted by the University of Redlands in Redlands, California.

The ISEA analysis finds that job automation will impact low-wage metro areas such as Las Vegas, Nevada; El Paso, Texas; and Riverside-San Bernardino, California, harder than high-tech, higher-wage regions like California’s Silicon Valley and Boston. The findings say 65.2% of jobs in Las Vegas could be automated. El Paso could see 63.9% of its jobs no longer taken […]

Mark Zuckerberg praises universal basic income on Alaska trip

Mark Zuckerberg praises universal basic income on Alaska trip

Mark Zuckerberg praises universal basic income on Alaska trip, CLOSE At Harvard 2017 commencement speech, Mark Zuckerberg said he wants to “explore ideas like universal basic income.” Time Mark Zuckerberg is talking up universal basic income — the guaranteed distribution of cash stipends to cover basic expenses — as a possible new safety net as technology automates more jobs, putting more people out of work.(Photo: Justin Sullivan) SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg is talking up universal basic income — the guaranteed distribution of cash stipends to cover basic expenses — as a possible new safety net as technology automates […]