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Wouldn’t a New Deal-style make-work programme be superior to institutionalized loafing? Photo: Bloomberg Many assume that universal basic income will be one of Mark Zuckerberg’s policy platforms when he runs for president. The volume has been turned up to 11 on such speculation since his Harvard commencement speech back in May. In summary, he said people think our labour force has been altered structurally by automation, that some people will be permanently left out of it, and that we should explore ideas like paying everyone a subsistence-level basic income. If people want to earn more, they can.

Libertarians like universal […]

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Rimutaka Green candidate Stefan Grand-Meyer answers a question at a meeting organised by the Hutt City Youth Council. The other candidates are Andy Parkins (ACT), Richard Warwick (TOP), Ginny Andersen (Labour) and Chris Bishop (National). Youth suicide, boot camps for youth offenders, pay equity and Maori as a compulsory language in schools.

Those were some of the issues raised at a Lower Hutt meet the candidates meeting with a difference.

Organised by the Hutt City Youth Council, four candidates from Hutt South and Rimutaka Green hopeful, Stefan Grand-Meyer, took part. Organiser Ellen Jackman (centre) with Labour’s Ginny Andersen and National’s Chris […]

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Billionaire Silicon Valley bosses are fast becoming a key source of support for the idea of a universal basic income .

Mark Zuckerberg and friends are unlikely to ever have to rely on free, no-strings-attached money from the state in order to make ends meet, but the telephone number salaries that their companies dole out have, paradoxically, brought the idea to the fore.

Vast pay packets have caused the price of basic necessities such as housing in the Greater San Francisco area to skyrocket, meaning many people with “ordinary” jobs are struggling to afford to live. Read more Now Slack […]

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Slovenian basic income advocate Dr. Valerija Korošec has announced her bid to run in her country’s presidential election on October 22, 2017.

Basic income is the main pillar of her independent candidacy, which also includes e-direct democracy and gender parity.

Korošec made the announcement at a July meeting of Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE), BIEN’s European affiliate. To officially run in the election, she needs to collect 5,000 signatures before the 26th of September. Valerija Korosec Korošec, a sociologist and social policy analyst at Slovenia’s Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development , is the author of “ Predlog […]

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Gareth Morgan’s Opportunities Party is proposing a universal basic income of $10,400. A Universal Basic Income scheme would be expensive and more complex than it appears, write ALEX PENK and JULIAN WOOD.

OPINION: Imagine someone said they’d give you a free $10,000 each year. What would you buy, where would you go?

That’s the lure of having the government pay us an unconditional basic income (UBI), and there’s an undeniable buzz around the idea from policy nerds and economists. But before we decide whether to jump on the UBI train, we should ask where it might end up. TOP’s […]

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There is new evidence that raising the minimum wage pushes business owners to replace low-skilled workers with automation. And it shows that old, young, female and black low-skilled workers face the highest levels of unemployment after a minimum wage increase.

Economists Grace Lordan of the London School of Economics and David Neumark of UC Irvine studied 35 years of government census data for their working paper, which was released in August, titled " People Versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs ."

"Based on [current population survey] data from 1980-2015, we find that increasing the minimum wage decreases […]

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Pia Malaney (Economist) joins Dave Rubin to discuss Trump, Bernie and middle America, industries collapsing, the possible effects of basic income, the automation of jobs, the role of economics in politics, a left leaning economists view of why lower taxes aren’t always the answer, and more. ***Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RubinReport

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Zuckenberg talked about Basic income to all in the world. Gates have the solution to finance it: Make robots pay taxes. Img credits: Winnipeg Free press.

In today’s western world automatic and robotic manufacturing is very limited because these take jobs from people. By introducing a national basic salary to all we eliminate the issue. By making using the latest technology in automatic and robotic manufacturing we get higher production and actually more tax income. Img credits: magoda

We would have less stress related problems and most of the institutions that take care of unemployment, social security, pensions, could be closed […]

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