Influential Tory former minister Nick Boles has condemned the idea of a universal basic income to cushion workers against the rise of robots as “dangerous nonsense”. Nick Boles: ‘Mankind is hard-wired to work.’ Photograph: Rex Features Universal basic income, or UBI, has won backers from Silicon Valley to Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party, as a way of guaranteeing workers a minimum income and ensuring they are not left behind by automation.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has promised to examine the idea, which would replace means-tested benefits with a single payment to every adult.
But in an extract from his forthcoming book, Square […]
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