Why universal basic income still can’t meet the challenges of an AI economy
by Eduardo Porter from Technology | The Guardian on (#725VR)
Andrew Yang's revived pitch suits the automation debate, but UBI can't fix inequalities concentrated tech wealth drives
Universal basic income (UBI) is back, like a space zombie in a sci-fi movie, resurrected from policy oblivion, hungry for policymakers' attention: brains!
Andrew Yang, whose Yang Gang" enthusiasm briefly shook up the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 promoting a Freedom Dividend" to save workers from automation - $1,000 a month for every American adult - is again the main carrier of the bug: offering UBI to save the nation when robots eat all our jobs.
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