Statistics suggest Canadians want a different approach to guaranteed income before they lend their support, writes Marc Zwelling.
Utopians often imagined a world without jobs. Some hoped automation would bring a leisure society. Some were afraid machines would do all our work and leave us impoverished.
Canadians are suspicious of technological progress. In a 1983 Decima Research poll 72 per cent agreed automation will lead to "high unemployment." In a 2016 Angus Reid Institute poll, 63 per cent agreed "new technology is likely to eliminate more jobs than it creates."Abacus Data asked about the impact of artificial intelligence and automation […]
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