As automation accelerates, the wealth gap between those who own robots and those replaced by robots will increase dramatically. This may sound like a sci-fi apocalypse scenario, but it’s a vision that’s shared by a growing number of tech executives. Recognizing those challenges, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg have publicly thrown their weight behind a policy known as universal basic income, a pre-determined salary from federal or state governments.
Scott Santens , a leading basic income advocate based in New Orleans, has crowdfunded a $1,350 per month basic income of his own via the Patreon platform. Strangers […]
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