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Elon Musk’s view: 5 global trends for decade to invert familiar-for-us world

Elon Musk’s view: 5 global trends for decade to invert familiar-for-us world

Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The World Government Summit held in Dubai on 12-14 February was marked not only by calls for reform of the entire UN and its structures from the lips of the UN Secretary-General. But the declaration of a commercial approach towards the formation of a new world, being born before our eyes, became more valuable.

The president of the National Engineering Consultancy Society of Azerbaijan (NECSA) and a member of FIDIC since 2004, Ibrahim Mammadzadeh, has stated that speech of Elon Musk became a quintessence of view of the corporate sector on the new world.

"Creator of Tesla and SpaceX […]

Tesla boss Elon Musk backs a ‘basic income’ for everyone

Tesla boss Elon Musk backs a ‘basic income’ for everyone

Tesla boss Elon Musk backs a ‘basic income’ for everyone because robots will take away our jobs leaving us without any ‘meaning’ in our lives

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has doubled down on his support of a universal basic income as a possible solution for unemployment caused by the rise of machines equipped with artificial intelligence taking over the workforce.

A universal basic income would give a standard amount of money to every citizen to cover basic expenses like food and living costs each month.At the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday, Musk told a crowd that universal basic income […]

Driverless trucks: economic tsunami may swallow one of most common US jobs

Driverless trucks: economic tsunami may swallow one of most common US jobs

In April 2016, Uber announced the acquisition of Otto, a San Francisco-based startup that has developed a kit that can turn any big rig into a self-driving truck .

The Otto technology enables complete autonomy on highways: trucks can navigate, stay in their lane, and slow or stop in response to traffic conditions completely without human intervention. Otto’s equipment currently costs about $30,000, but that is certain to fall significantly in the coming years.

Otto is by no means alone. Massive automated vehicles are already commonly used to move materials for the Australian mining industry. Daimler, the German multinational company, has […]

The Alternative Facts Of The Basic Income Movement

The Alternative Facts Of The Basic Income Movement

Francine Mestrum A couple of days ago, I received the most recent newsletter of BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network). As always, this is very interesting literature, though one must read it with one major fact in mind: the network does not necessarily communicate about basic income… it talks about ‘basic income’ (for all, rich and poor) but almost all the items concern guaranteed minimum incomes (for those who need it).

There is a very obvious reason for this: nowhere in the world has a basic income been introduced. Of course, there are the always repeated examples of one poor village […]

Can Universal Basic Income Fix America’s Inequality? | Jeffrey Sachs

Can Universal Basic Income Fix America’s Inequality? | Jeffrey Sachs

Can’t the U.S. be a little more like Scandinavia in its ethos? Fixing inequality in America will take more than economic reform, it will also need a cultural shift. From a human rights and decency standard, everybody in a society should be able to meet their basic needs, says economist and Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs – but he questions whether a popular proposal known as Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the way to achieve a better standard of living in the U.S. Sachs is the author of Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable (goo.gl/NPbq87).

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Billionaire entrepreneur says ‘basic income’ will be necessary

Billionaire entrepreneur says ‘basic income’ will be necessary

South African-born billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk says universal basic income will be necessary as robots continue to steal jobs world-wide.

While speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai this week, Mr Musk said there will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better.

He also noted that humans might struggle to emotionally cope with the influx of job-stealing robots.The universal basic income, which the billionaire is pushing for, would cover expenses such as good and living costs.Mr Musk is sceptical about the inclusion of the UBI though, saying that he’s concerned about people’s sense of […]

Billionaire entrepreneur says ‘basic income’ will be necessary

Billionaire entrepreneur says ‘basic income’ will be necessary

South African-born billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk says universal basic income will be necessary as robots continue to steal jobs world-wide.

While speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai this week, Mr Musk said there will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better.

He also noted that humans might struggle to emotionally cope with the influx of job-stealing robots.The universal basic income, which the billionaire is pushing for, would cover expenses such as good and living costs.Mr Musk is sceptical about the inclusion of the UBI though, saying that he’s concerned about people’s sense of […]

The résumé is dead: your next click might determine your next job

The résumé is dead: your next click might determine your next job

The rise of ever more intelligent machines is prompting much speculation about the future of work and a clear separation of views is becoming apparent. Some claim that automation is likely to lead to job losses and that we should prepare for that. Others argue that the new technologies will create as many jobs as they destroy: after all, that is what has happened in the past.

Those – like Donald Trump – who argue they can “bring back the jobs” presume a return, or reinvention, of an almost mythical past where manufacturing dominated the economy and the big firms […]

What are the most high-profile basic income research studies?

may be mine…read if u are interested.

No one can stop the idea whose time has come.

Livelihood without any Job. or Free Basic Income to all Because you are born as humans. This is the biggest idea of 21st century.see howAs technology will evolve it will keep Generating as well as Eliminating jobs.Generating at the speed of 10, eliminating at the speed of 1000.Generating in only few sectors like software, big data etc where there is need for automation. Eliminating all others like in few years self driven cars will eliminate drivers, online education will eliminate teachers, coaching […]

World Economic Forum blog: “Canada’s basic income experiment – will it work?”

World Economic Forum blog: “Canada’s basic income experiment – will it work?”

In January, Apolitical published an exclusive interview with two leaders behind the planning of a pilot study of a basic income guarantee program in Ontario, Canada: Helena Jaczek, Ontario’s Minister of Community and Social Services, and project advisor Hugh Segal.

Earlier this month, the interview was republished in the official blog of the World Economic Forum, the Switzerland-based organization responsible for the prestigious annual Davos meeting (which this year held a panel discussion and debate on “ basic income: dream or delusion ”).

In the interview, Jaczek and Segal explain the reasons for their interest in and optimism about basic income. […]