As some tech giants throw their weight behind the idea of a universal basic income, one anthropologist says it’s a key component of a strategy to break the “addiction to economic growth [that] is killing us” and the planet.
Offering his views this week on BBC’s “Viewsnight,” Jason Hickel, an anthropologist at the London School of Economics and author of books including The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions , says “we can’t have infinite growth on a finite planet.”
That argument—which others have made as well—should be clear by evidence of the “climate change, deforestation, and […]
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