‘What Is the Universal Basic Income?’ Good question. Watch this quick Tyee explainer. They don’t call them disruptors for nothing. Robots. AI. Self-driving cars. Outsourcing and gigifying. For every job, it seems, there’s a killer app waiting to, well, kill it. Meanwhile, the gap between rich and poor widens. As the notion everyone can have a solid middle-class paycheque recedes, an idea that’s been around for some time is gaining traction.
It’s called the universal guaranteed income. An income floor, essentially, granted everyone in the nation who can’t earn their way there on their own.
A book by former Tory senator […]
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