Category: Basic Income

Cairn’s Monthly Dossiers is a free online publication designed to highlight the work of francophone scholars in the social sciences and humanities. Each month, the publication focuses on a topic of current social or political relevance.

Universal Basic Income (UBI) was the topic selected for the debut issue , released on June 15, 2017. As the introduction to the dossier notes, the issue came to prominence in France earlier in the year due the campaign of presidential candidate Benoît Hamon, who won the Socialist Party primary after making a UBI proposal a cornerstone of his campaign.

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Angela Merkel is seen during election night event at the CDU’s party headquarters The next German government will face economic-policy challenges in five key areas: digitalisation and automation, demographic change, globalisation, climate change, and European integration.

With respect to digitalisation, Germany tends to fluctuate between excessive enthusiasm for expanding fiber-optic networks and fear of the impact of new, largely unregulated business models, such as those underpinning avatars of the “sharing economy” like Uber and Airbnb.

But German policymakers must not respond to such sentiments with knee-jerk reactions. Rolling out a nationwide fiber-optic network, rather than simply servicing the locales that are […]

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It will never work. All it will do is eventually cause massive inflation. Once that inflation kicks in the UBI won’t be enough and then we will continue to hear the same tired arguments about wealth inequality.You’d also have to address the stupidity component where a not so insignificant segment of the population is just down right financially retarded. They will blow the money and then still expect government (i.e. taxpayers) to take care of them. How To Fix Your Fatigue (Do This Every Day) link With current factory automation I’m not sure we could ever really […]

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The Labor MP Jim Chalmers has ridiculed the push to introduce a universal basic income in Australia, saying it would be a “backward step” for workers that could increase inequality and cost the budget billions.

His criticism of the concept puts him squarely alongside the shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen, who has been pushing back for months against internal and external calls to adopt the welfare policy .

Chalmers has cemented his critique of universal basic income in a new book, co-written with Mike Quigley, the former chief executive of NBN Co, on technological change, the labour force and inequality called Changing […]

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Losing your job to a robot might not necessarily be all doom and gloom if governments revolutionise the way we can earn a crust.

That’s the hope of social policy academic Professor Greg Marston, who wants Australia to join other nations in debating the merits of introducing a universal basic income to help with an expected surge in unemployment that the rise of robots may bring.

The University of Queensland academic and other proponents of the UBI, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla’s Elon Musk, argue governments need policies that provide an economic floor for people who lose their jobs […]

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An Australian social policy academic wants Australians to start debating the idea of a universal basic income to help people put out of work by robots. Losing your job to a robot might not necessarily be all doom and gloom if governments revolutionise the way we can earn a crust.

That’s the hope of social policy academic Professor Greg Marston, who wants Australia to join other nations in debating the merits of introducing a universal basic income to help with an expected surge in unemployment that the rise of robots may bring.

The University of Queensland academic and other proponents […]

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Losing your job to a robot might not necessarily be all doom and gloom with universal basic income. Losing your job to a robot might not necessarily be all doom and gloom if governments revolutionise the way we can earn a crust.

That’s the hope of social policy academic Professor Greg Marston, who wants Australia to join other nations in debating the merits of introducing a universal basic income to help with an expected surge in unemployment that the rise of robots may bring.

The University of Queensland academic and other proponents of the UBI, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and […]

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One of the biggest VCs in Silicon Valley is launching an experiment that will give 3,000 people free money until 2022

Y Combinator, the largest and most prestigious startup accelerator in Silicon Valley, has announced new details of its upcoming experiment to give Americans free money. YC will select 3,000 people across two states and divide them into two groups. The first group will include 1,000 people who will receive $1,000 a month for up to five years. The second group of 2,000 people — which the study will consider its control group […]

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Rimac is planning on introducing an even more advanced hypercar in the future times. This will outdo all the others in matters having to do with structure and function.

Rimac will unveil its supercar by the time 2018 comes ambling along. It will not only be more comfy but costlier than the Concept One. The performance of this vehicle will be tops.

Termed the Concept Two, it will not bear this title when it comes out though, according to AutoCar . While it will be more spacious, it will still have two seats inside it for the passengers. Plans […]

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