DEBATE: With rising automation, is the Royal Society of Arts right that it’s time for a universal basic income?

DEBATE: With rising automation, is the Royal Society of Arts right that it’s time for a universal basic income?

As for the jobs no one wants to do: leave them for the robots (Source: Getty) With rising automation, is the Royal Society of Arts right that it’s time for a universal basic income? Dr Lauren Ware, lecturer in philosophy at the School of European Culture and Languages at the University of Kent, says YES.

We suffer from a culture of competitive overwork that is unpleasant, unhealthy, and unsustainable. Faced with rising automation, the state should consider a variety of options: one of them is a universal basic income (UBI). A UBI allows for a freedom and security that […]

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