Category: Basic Income

“It’s highly interesting to see how it makes people behave. Will this lead them to boldly experiment with different kinds of jobs? Or, as some critics claim, make them lazier with the knowledge of getting a basic income without doing anything?”
“It’s highly interesting to see how it makes people behave. Will this lead them to boldly experiment with different kinds of jobs? Or, as some critics claim, make them lazier with the knowledge of getting a basic income without doing anything?”
“It’s highly interesting to see how it makes people behave. Will this lead them to […]

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We already have several forms of basic income , some provided by the government and some provided by private industry. What the question is implying is that there may one day be a universal basic income that is managed or provided by a single entity, presumably the government.

Contemporary forms of basic income fall into:

> Social security Disability Pensions These are all examples of fixed incomes that the recipients do not manage and which are guaranteed by either the government or private industry to continue for life or until some other form of fixed income replaces them.Of course, “guaranteed” […]

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Fucking sucks, brahs . Highly Deplorable Re: My life: Waiting for Universal Basic Income or WW3 – Whichever comes first Posted 02/19/2017 12:12 PM – Hide All women are whores. Turn the two keys.. I’m Deplorable Re: My life: Waiting for Universal Basic Income or WW3 – Whichever comes first Posted 02/19/2017 12:43 PM – Hide work at mcdonalds/target/costco/walmart etc. any job that gets you out of the apartment and interacting with people is a good job. Bagmeister Supreme Registered +12 340 posts 20 topics Re: My life: Waiting for Universal […]

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Quartz editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney recently interviewed billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates, where the richest man in the world, as reported by Forbes , expressed his belief that with automated solutions replacing human workers, taxes will need to be paid by robots to make up for lost revenue that currently funds important social service programs.

Gates finds the situation where a person earning a salary of $50,000, and paying a portion of their income to the government in taxes, being replaced by a robot that pays none, unsustainable. “What the world wants is to take this […]

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Advances in robotics will make the adoption of basic income inevitable, Elon Musk said.

“I think some kind of universal basic income (UBI) is going to be necessary,” Musk said at the World Government Summit in Dubai on February 10. This is the second time Musk has stated we will have no choice but to adopt a basic income , last year he made a similar statement to the American news network CNBC.

Interestingly enough Musk is not very comfortable with the notion but he seems resigned to it, reported Fast Company . He believes governments will have to adopt UBI […]

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– There’s nothing a human can do better than a robot

– Automation will take over and make everything cheaper to produce

– Massive unemployment will cause the need for Universal Basic Income – The real problem is going to be how people are going to have meaning in their liveshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6HPdNBicM8 ☔☔☔☔☔☔☔☔☔☔ lol @ people thinking this will make life better the world is gonna collapse into a dystopia within the next century technology is a cancer that is eating the […]

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Recently, Elon Musk had the chance to share his thoughts on universal basic income (UBI) at the World Government Summit in Dubai. At the Summit, Musk had the opportunity to talk about the future, and the challenges the world will face in the next hundred years – including artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and the job displacement expected to come with it.

When asked about the challenges civilization is set to face in the near future, Musk began by noting the threat of artificial intelligences that surpass humanity.He stated, “deep artificial intelligence, or artificial general intelligence, where you can have […]

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>> >>113301827 (OP)
Yeah, man, everyone is going to go work at the sewage plant to treat our water if they have basic income!

All the kids will grow up and say "I want to be like Jamal the garbage man when I grow up!" because they have basic income!
Every kid will want to rush into the concrete industry because of basic income, man!Ohhh….wait…none of that will happen. >> Socialism is a better way of solving the problem of automation and unemploymentWe should stop thinking jobs and work as just a means of making people money and producing good.It should […]

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When he got the letter after Christmas saying he was entitled to an unconditional income of €560 (£478) a month, Mika Ruusunen couldn’t believe his luck. “At first I thought it was a joke. I had to read it many times. I looked for any evidence it might be false.”

But the father of two was not the victim of a scam. He has been selected to take part in an experiment being run by the Finnish government, in which 2,000 unemployed people between the ages of 25 and 58 will receive a guaranteed sum – a “basic income” – […]

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