Want utopia? Start with universal basic income and a 15-hour work week

Want utopia? Start with universal basic income and a 15-hour work week

Bratislav Milenkovic

A great deal has been written in recent years about the perils of automation. With predicted mass unemployment, declining wages, and increasing inequality, clearly we should all be afraid.

By now it’s no longer just the Silicon Valley trend watchers and technoprophets who are apprehensive. In a study that has already racked up several hundred citations, scholars at Oxford University have estimated that no less than 47 per cent of all American jobs and 54 per cent of all those in Europe are at a high risk of being usurped by machines. And not in a hundred years or […]

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