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Full title: 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

We can always drive one of his exploding cars into oblivion, yes? Never mind this old refrain of the left about robots.

I suggest we start with Elon Musk and put him on a “basic income.”This guy has milked the taxpayers enough.If no one is working, no one is producing, and no one deserves to be paid, and no one can buy anything.It will never get to 100% of jobs done by robots, […]

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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has some grim opinions when it comes to the future of automation. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File) Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has some grim predictions when it comes to the future of automation.

While speak at the World Government Summit in Dubai this week, Musk warned that a universal “basic income” will become necessary as people’s jobs are increasingly replaced by robots.

“There will be fewer and fewer jobs that a robot cannot do better,” Musk said, according to Fast Company . “I think some kind of universal basic income is going to be necessary.”But Musk took […]

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On January 23 rd , Sean Kline , Director of the San Francisco Office of Financial Empowerment , spoke at a Questions & Answers event where he discussed his ideas for universal basic income (UBI) pilots in San Francisco, as well as other cities across the United States. Kline was hosted by Jim Pugh, the co-director of the Universal Income Project , and they spoke at the Covo center in San Francisco.

“We’re at a galvanizing moment for cities to think more creatively about how they can generate revenue for really progressive policies,” Kline said. His speech focused on implementing […]

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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. At its simplest, UBI is an unconditional base salary that is paid to all citizens of a society, no matter their employment status, current wealth, attempts to gain work, and regardless of how they intent to spend it. Sachs sees the value in the idea, but […]

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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 is ‘going to be necessary’ in the future. Tesla CEO Elon Musk told a crowd at the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday […]

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The universal basic income has become a subject of increasing fascination across the entire ideological spectrum in recent years. Capable of much more than just a simple “employment fix”, basic income could help to create no less than a shared political vision for a future society.

There are a number of experiments in basic income about to be implemented this year around the world. The experiments offer basic income as a solution to automation, lack of disposable income, benefit traps or a bloated bureaucracy. In other words, the goal is to “fix” various parts of the existing relationships between the […]

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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 is ‘going to be necessary’ in the future.Tesla CEO Elon Musk told a crowd at the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday (pictured) […]

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Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center. He is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, named "the best political book of the year" by the New York Times, and Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think. He has published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Law and Economics, and Intelligence, and has […]

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