There are a little over 150 million employed people in the United States: about 3.4 million drive trucks, taxis, buses or delivery vehicles, meaning that more than one in every 50 workers in the U.S. operates a motor vehicle.
Within ten years, many will be out of a job, for self-driving vehicles will become cheaper than paying humans. This inevitable displacement of human workers means a radical change is necessary.
Given that capitalism is unlikely to go away anytime soon, I propose a humane and efficient way to address this problem: a universal basic income (UBI).The idea of a UBI is […]
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