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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