If automation takes off the way some predict it will, a whole lot of people are going to find themselves unemployed in the future.
Some researchers have proposed using a universal basic income — an unconditional sum of money given to every member of a society — to ensure those folks can still afford to buy the things they need to live.
But a dystopian new social experiment aims to find out if the unemployed would be willing to sell their privacy in exchange for money. It turns out, some might be — and the current going rate is about $1,830 […]
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