No one knows if a universal basic income (UBI) will help answer the world’s economic problems. But a minimum payment to all citizens is being floated as a response to a digital economy rapidly reducing or transforming whole classes of jobs.
Finland and the Netherlands are running modest pilots , and others are being considered by governments in France, Switzerland, and the UK, and by a host of nonprofits .
To gauge public enthusiasm for the idea, Dalia Research , a Berlin-based market research firm, has been surveying Europeans’ attitudes toward basic income since 2016. Dalia defined the UBI as an […]
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