While some can leave old jobs behind by picking up new skills, what will some cleaner aunties do when robots take over their jobs? Decades later, will a new class of people arise – upsettingly called ‘the useless class’? Should universal basic income be a way forward?
"Leave it. Leave it."
I had slurped up my yong tau foo, and was picking up my bowl to take it to the foodcourt tray-return area when a cleaner auntie told me to put it back on the table.When I hesitated, wanting to help her, she said sharply in Mandarin: "Leave it. Leave […]
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