Nobody is safe from the automation cliff. If we want to avoid this enormously disruptive trend, the time is now to start the process of implementing universal basic income. In this episode of The News Lens Radio, we sound out the views of experts and academics working on advocacy and implementation of a universal basic income (UBI) – the unconditional distribution of enough cash for all of us to secure a basic standard of living.
Critics have called UBI unaffordable, a deterrent to seeking work, and in the case of Switzerland, which rejected a nationwide referendum on the scheme last […]
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