Universal basic income (UBI) has increasingly and excitedly being advocated by both academics and activists in the fight against unemployment, poverty and income inequality. More than by academics and activists, it has been advocated also by some of the world’s biggest tech companies .
This apparent odd convergence of interests is explained by the prominent arrival of a future where automation may transform many of the current jobs into flexible, precarious and even obsolete – and where UBI can ascend as a necessary alternative for them .
The French economist Thomas Piketty, in a recent post in his blog , argued […]
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