Doris Liou Greetings, Future Tensers,
This weekend, we published “ Burned-Over Territory ,” the latest installment of our Future Tense Fiction series. In it, author Lee Konstantinou brings us the story of a near-future where mass automation has supplanted most human jobs, and the universal basic income system put in place to make up for it has failed to stem the tide of rising social inequality. In fact, in some ways, the UBI has exacerbated economic woes. “You can’t live off the Basic,” as the protagonist says. In his response essay to the story, UBI advocate Sebastian Johnson writes that […]
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