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Rise of the robots

Rise of the robots

From drones delivering your post to robotic chefs, automation looks set to eliminate a chunk of the workforce but could also free us from dangerous jobs. Ryan Fletcher asks what life side by side with machines will look like As the current masters of the universe mingled at the World Economic Forum in Davos at the start of the year, it became clear that the Silicon Valley executives in attendance were worrying about the havoc their hi-tech creations could wreak. But it wasn’t the prospect that their artificial intelligence tech would create a robot class capable of usurping them. […]

Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy

Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy

Philippe Van Parijs will discuss his forthcoming book Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy.
Philippe Van Parijs is a professor at the University of Louvain (Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics), a special guest professor at the University of Leuven and an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford. He is one of the founders of the Basic Income Earth Network and chairs its International Board. His books include Real Freedom for All. What (if anything) Can Justify Capitalism? (Oxford UP, 1995), What’s Wrong with a Free Lunch? (Beacon Press, 2001), […]

Re: Unconditional basic income by the texpayer’s money

Yes, looks to me like that as well. However, the shoe has yet to be made fitting different feet. Different standard of living levels in different countries come to mind and many other things that may be required to make it really work.

If unemployed people are made to depend on UK Social Security or church-charity run soup kitchens alone, it will always have the smell of odour that results from an old-fashioned type of "charity" bundled with humiliation and arbitrariness. The answer here is a legally assured right.

A lesson to be learned from more recent church history (not alone). […]

Back to basics

Back to basics

Opinion » Comment

Government report misses key points on income one for all: A universal system would generate community and multiplier effects. THE government’s Chief Economic Adviser deserves congratulations on including a chapter in the Economic Survey of 2016-2017 on basic income, which would involve giving every Indian a modest amount each month as a citizenship right. This policy is gaining support globally, and — as the report shows — is affordable. Sadly, the writers appear not to have studied the results of basic income pilots that SEWA, with myself as a collaborator, conducted between 2010 and 2013. They […]

There’s nothing universal or basic about universal basic income in India

There’s nothing universal or basic about universal basic income in India

Universal Basic Income is only an idea in the making, but within its first year of conceptualisation, it seems like the first two terms of the acronym have already been reduced to notional ideas.
-KINJAL SAMPAT & VIVEK MISHRA

A chapter in this year’s Economic Survey titled ‘Universal Basic Income: A Conversation With and Within the Mahatma’ in the Economic Survey of 2016-17, engages at length with the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI). Although UBI has not been realised in this year’s budget, its place in the Survey reflects the seriousness of the present government in pursuing […]

Re: Unconditional basic income by the texpayer’s money

Unconditional basic income by the texpayer’s money — Turnoi — 2017-02-04 Re: Unconditional basic income by the texpayer’s money — Curious — 2017-02-04
Re: Unconditional basic income by the texpayer’s money by: Turnoi Oh, yes! I experienced them when I was much less well-off than I am today. They had always pissed me off! A lot of "charitable" people are hypocrite Re: Unconditional basic income by the texpayer’s money by: Turnoi Yes, looks to me like that as well. However, the shoe has yet to be made fitting different feet. Different standard of living levels in different countries […]

Futures Shaped by Automation and Catastrophe: Peter Frase on Capitalism’s Endgame

Futures Shaped by Automation and Catastrophe: Peter Frase on Capitalism's Endgame

What will replace capitalism as we currently know it? (Photo: Wolf-Ulf Wulfrolf / Flickr) Is capitalism’s collapse inevitable? If so, what kind of post-capitalist society do we face? In Four Futures: Life After Capitalism , Peter Frase draws on social science, speculative fiction and social theory to create an engaging and thought-provoking portrait of four possible scenarios, some more dystopian than others. Order your copy of this book today from Truthout by clicking here!

As we automate more jobs and continue on a road to scarcity of resources, whither capitalism? The following is the Truthout interview with Peter Frase, […]

As economy becomes more automated, is your job safe?

As economy becomes more automated, is your job safe?

Podcast

A study by Oxford professors Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey estimates that 47 percent of jobs in the U.S. are at risk of being automated in the next 20 years. In his farewell speech, former President Obama spoke of the relentless pace of automation that is making good middle class jobs obsolete. Tom Martin talks about the implications of automation with Dr. Chris Bollinger, professor of economics and director of the Center of Business and Economic Research in the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics.

Click here to hear the audio version of the interview: […]

france’s socialist candidate is calling for universal basic income robot tax and legal weed

after brexit and the election of donald trump, all eyes are on france for another populist upset, with marine le pen rising in the polls ahead of the country’s upcoming presidential election. the growing popularity of the leader of the far-right, anti-immigration, anti-eu national front party is in keeping with the rightward drift of politics recently. equally noteworthy is the existential crisis that confronts the out-of-favor left. in france, as elsewhere, the response has been to shift to the other extreme end of the political spectrum. france’s socialists have lurched as far left as they can go, naming benoît […]

Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister …a universal basic income”

Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister ...a universal basic income

Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister …a universal basic income"

February 5 2017 at 7:31 AM WAFFer (Login JackDanielsDry )
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WAFFer (Login cretegeorge )Hellenic Hoplites (Greece) Jack this idiot can explain his theories where he like, opinions from him are not welcome in Greece and have zero value!!!! HAF WAFFer (Login ephialtes )The Conquerors (Turkey) Re: Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister …a universal basic income" February 5 2017, 7:47 AM now you understand how greece went broke we have idiots like this not only that but many […]