{"id":26296,"date":"2016-06-01T04:53:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T11:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/heres-why-the-inventor-of-the-internet-supports-basic-income"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:58:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:58:25","slug":"heres-why-the-inventor-of-the-internet-supports-basic-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/heres-why-the-inventor-of-the-internet-supports-basic-income","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s why the inventor of the Internet supports basic income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-why-the-inventor-of-the-internet-supports-basic-income2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the robot economy looming large in the coming decades, one solution to vanishing jobs may simply be to give people money regardless of whether or not they work.<\/p>\n<p>That idea is called \u201cbasic income,\u201d and it just gained the support of one of the tech world\u2019s founding fathers, Internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a basic income is one of the ways of addressing massive global inequality,\u201d Berners-Lee, who founded the Web in 1989, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/theeconomist\/the-economist-asks-can-the-open-web-survive\">explained<\/a> on a recent episode of The Economist podcast.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/Heres-why-the-inventor-of-the-Internet-supports-basic-income\/articleshow\/52527659.cms\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/Heres-why-the-inventor-of-the-...527659.cms<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the robot economy looming large in the coming decades, one solution to vanishing jobs may simply be to give people money regardless of whether or not they work. That idea is called \u201cbasic income,\u201d and it just gained the support of one of the tech world\u2019s founding fathers, Internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee. \u201cI think [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1878,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-employment","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67392,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26296\/revisions\/67392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}