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Engineers in South Korea test a four-metre-tall humanoid manned robot dubbed Method-2 At the start of a new year, what is there to look forward to? According to predictions from think tanks and tech experts, advances in automation and artificial intelligence will threaten the jobs of millions of workers. The CEO of one company, Capgemini, goes further, predicting that AI will be one of the key factors dividing society into the haves and have-nots, with highly skilled engineers at the one end of the spectrum and low paid unqualified worker drones at the other, with nothing in between.

There will […]

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Martine Mary Waltho (BIEN Life Member) – “My Basic Income Journey”

I first came across the idea of a basic income when I was at university in 1984. There was an article in a magazine; it might have been the New Society . It was written by a man who used to be a probation officer. I think this was Bill Jordan. The article was written in a clear and commonsense way. In this way the article took on a life of its own and acted as a discussion point.

Soon after this there were meetings at the Quaker Meeting […]

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I may be repeating some of the stuff in propaganda, but my reluctance here has a lot of merit. A livable UBI can work. It’s not the only answer by far:

Value human labor higher Tax the fucking robots Put people to work on public projects

Could come up with a few more pretty easy.A non livable one ends up being a market solution where markets aren’t well indicated.I don’t like the conflict of interest between human needs and markets very much at all.For things like food, yeah. Markets do work.Utilities? Hate them. People are often forced consumers in monopoly scenarios. […]

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Photo taken by Stefan Pangritz at a solidarity meeting for the Swiss
referendum in January 2014 in Basel.

Toru Yamamori ( Basic Income News editor)
1. Encounter to the idea My encounter to the idea of a basic income was around 1991-2. I was involved in solidarity activism with a casual worker’s trade union, in which many of the members were homeless construction workers. Some left leaning intellectuals also came to show their solidarity from time to time, and one of them told me that what we need is the idea of ‘unconditional social income’ that was articulated […]

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Economist Joseph Stiglitz was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2001 for his work on information asymmetries in the market. He was Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton and Chief Economist of the World Bank from 1997 to 2000. And he is a supporter of universal basic income (UBI).

On October 25, 2016, Stiglitz was the featured guest on Vox editor Ezra Klein’s podcast, The Ezra Klein Show. Although the question was not a focal point of the 70 minute interview, Klein did ask Stiglitz whether he favors a UBI in the United States.

The famed economist […]

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Your user agent does not support the HTML5 Video element. A group of 2,000 unemployed people in Finland will receive a basic income every month from the state, tax-free and with no strings attached. Proponents hope to prove such schemes boost people’s motivation to find work.

http://www.dw.com/en/finland-to-test-universal-basic-income-for-the-unemployed/a-36928824

Well ..this will be an interesting experiment. I for one hope it will work and will serve as an example for other economies[AH mode] start background music: Dire Straits, money for nothing [/AH mode] 2 people have thanked this post Some snippets from the OP:Did you read the title of the threadFinland […]

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Finland intends to examine whether the implementation of unconditional basic income can simplify the social system of the country and lead to more unemployed to find work. In January, 2000 randomly selected unemployed people will receive rather than their unemployment benefit an amount of 560 EUR per month, without any conditions. The money will not be taxed and will not have any financial penalty if the receivers earn extra cash. This test at national level would make Finland the first country in the world that will pay the unconditional basic income.

The testing group will learn shortly before the New […]

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