Is basic income a good or bad idea?

03/15/2016 - 16:55

Eduardo Porter and Farhad Manjoo


In the utopian (dystopian?) future projected by technological visionaries, few people would have to work. Wealth would be generated by millions upon millions of sophisticated machines. But how would people earn a living?

Silicon Valley has an answer: a universal basic income.

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