What role will work play in our future lives populated with robots and driverless vehicles? As France prepares to elect a new president, it is wrangling with bigger issues than simple election manifestos.
The catalyst for the soul-searching has been a proposal from leading Socialist party candidate Benoit Hamon to adopt a universal basic income —a state handout of around 750 euros ($805) a month, made to everyone.
"I expect that the digital revolution is going to make work increasingly rare… and we need to prepare for that," Hamon says, underlining how advances in the welfare system have been criticised in […]
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