Technology, globalization, and a rapidly changing economic landscape are leaving behind many workers and feeding the flames of populism worldwide. Could the solution to mitigating this economic displacement be to just give everyone money?
That’s the idea being pushed by advocates of Universal Basic Income (UBI) in recent books like Give People Money by Annie Lowrey and organizations like The Economic Security Project . A Universal Basic Income is a cash-benefit given to everyone — no strings attached — designed to alleviate financial burdens of the modern economy. The idea is simple, provocative, and slowly creeping into mainstream policy debates.
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