These days, all kinds of sensible and brilliant people, from Elon Musk to the prime minister of Finland , are voicing support for universal basic income . The idea of giving everyone—or at least some people—enough to lift them out of poverty without having to work some menial job is very of the moment. Executives like Musk are asked about it all the time, and executives like Musk generally think it’s a good call; the tech elite are some of the idea’s most enthusiastic supporters.
But among economists—who presumably would need to be on board if a basic income were […]
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