Yale Economist and Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller - How
Wage Insurance Could Ease Economic Inequality
Debate on Basic Income
Finland’s Universal Basic Income Plan – an interesting
economic experiment:
A Plan in Case Robots
Take the Jobs: Give Everyone a Paycheck
“But for the sake
of argument, imagine that within two or three decades we’ll have morphed into
the Robotic States of America.
In Robot America,
most manual laborers will have been replaced by herculean bots. Truck drivers,
cabbies, delivery workers and airline pilots will have been superseded by
vehicles that do it all. Doctors, lawyers, business executives and even
technology columnists for The New York Times will have seen their ranks thinned
by charming, attractive, all-knowing algorithms.
How will society
function after humanity has been made redundant? Technologists and economists
have been grappling with this fear for decades, but in the last few years, one
idea has gained widespread interest — including from some of the very
technologists who are now building the bot-ruled future.
Their plan is known
as “universal basic income,” or U.B.I., and it goes like this: As the jobs dry
up because of the spread of artificial intelligence, why not just give everyone
a paycheck?”
A Future Without Jobs? Two Views of the Changing Work
Force
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/business/economy/a-future-without-jobs-two-views-of-the-changing-work-force.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/business/economy/a-future-without-jobs-two-views-of-the-changing-work-force.html