{"id":73936,"date":"2017-11-25T07:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/the-jurys-still-out-on-whether-universal-basic-income-will-save-us-from-job-stealing-robots"},"modified":"2017-12-02T12:01:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T20:01:56","slug":"the-jurys-still-out-on-whether-universal-basic-income-will-save-us-from-job-stealing-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/the-jurys-still-out-on-whether-universal-basic-income-will-save-us-from-job-stealing-robots","title":{"rendered":"The jury\u2019s still out on whether universal basic income will save us from job-stealing robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-jurys-still-out-on-whether-universal-basic-income-will-save-us-from-job-stealing-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this new Business Insider article, my ideas on peak labor and Universal Basic Income are pitted against MIT scientist Andrew McAfee. I\u2019m excited to see my government shrinking Federal Land Dividend proposal getting out there. Story by journalist Dylan Love: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/will-universal-basic-income-save-us-from-job-stealing-robots-2017-11?r=UK&IR=T\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/will-universal-basic-income-s\u2026?r=UK&amp;IR=T<\/a> #transhumanism #libertarian<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Does free money change nothing or everything?<\/p>\n<p>Universal basic income (UBI) is the hottest idea in social security since Franklin Roosevelt signed the New Deal in 1935, and it is fairly understood as free money given to citizens by their government. Though the idea traces its roots back to <a href=\"http:\/\/basicincome.org\/basic-income\/history\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"> the 16th century<\/a> as a \u201ccure for theft,\u201d UBI has gained new consideration and momentum these days, as high-profile techno-doomsayers like SpaceX founder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-killer-robots-will-be-here-within-five-years-2014-11\"> Elon Musk<\/a> point to it as an economic solution for big problems predicted to arrive soon.<\/p>\n<p>The future is coming, Musk and his ilk warn, and it\u2019s bringing increased automation and intelligent technologies with it that will eventually overtake the human capacity for work. All-capable robots will cause widespread human unemployment, goes the thinking, plaguing our income and livelihood for generations.<\/p>\n<p>If the \u201crobots are stealing jobs\u201d on the level that the party line portends, then UBI presents itself as a compelling solution to this unusual, hypothetical problem. There\u2019s already some real-world precedent for it: a UBI pilot program in Finland sees the government send a small amount of money to 2,000 unemployed Finns each month, and the initial results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/oct\/31\/finland-universal-basic-income\" rel=\"nofollow\"> are quite positive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/will-universal-basic-income-save-us-from-job-stealing-robots-2017-11?r=UK&IR=T\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/will-universal-basic-income-s...?r=UK&IR=T<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this new Business Insider article, my ideas on peak labor and Universal Basic Income are pitted against MIT scientist Andrew McAfee. I\u2019m excited to see my government shrinking Federal Land Dividend proposal getting out there. Story by journalist Dylan Love: http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/will-universal-basic-income-s\u2026?r=UK&amp;IR=T #transhumanism #libertarian Does free money change nothing or everything? Universal basic income (UBI) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,2019,1878,1490,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-elon-musk","category-employment","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73936","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74104,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73936\/revisions\/74104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}