In January 2016, Sam Altman , president of the Y Combinator seed accelerator, announced that the company was going to study a basic income guarantee in the US. Altman sees traditional job elimination on the horizon and wants to get some answers to theoretical questions: “I think it’s good to start studying this early. I’m fairly confident that at some point in the future, as technology continues to eliminate traditional jobs and massive new wealth gets created, we’re going to see some version of this at a national scale. “So it would be good to answer some of the […]
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