Is Guaranteed Basic Income the Solution to Robots Taking Our Jobs?

Tags: Labor and Wages

06/30/2021 Robert Blumen

The automation doomers assume that when jobs are eliminated by automation in one place, that the number of jobs are permanently gone. For this to be true, there would have to be no growth in the need for labor elsewhere.

Original Article: “Is Guaranteed Basic Income the Solution to Robots Taking Our Jobs?“

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