{"id":80694,"date":"2018-07-16T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T21:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/universal-basic-income-touted-as-answer-to-automation"},"modified":"2018-07-16T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T21:02:21","slug":"universal-basic-income-touted-as-answer-to-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/universal-basic-income-touted-as-answer-to-automation","title":{"rendered":"Universal basic income touted as answer to automation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My debate on #BasicIncome at the FreedomFest against Dr. Barbara Kolm, director at the Austrian Economic Center (debate moderated by syndicated columnist and scholar Veronique de Rugy) got a write-up in Nevada Current (article by journalist Jeniffer Solis). https:\/\/www.nevadacurrent.com\/<\/a>\u2026\/universal-basic-income-tou\u2026\/ #FFest18<\/p>\n

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Earlier this month, the Vdara Hotel & Spa added two relay robots that deliver snacks, sundries and spa products directly to guest suites. While charmingly decorated as a Golden Retriever and Dalmatian dog with Vdara-themed collars, the new robots \u2014 named Fetch and Jett \u2014 may be a sign of what\u2019s next for Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

In 20 years, about 65 percent of the city\u2019s jobs could be automated, according to a study<\/a> by the Institute for Spatial Economic Analysis. That projection may be an outlier \u2013 the Organization for Economic for Cooperation and Development, for instance, projects<\/a> only 10 percent of U.S. jobs are vulnerable to automation.<\/p>\n

Still, the highest<\/a> areas of employment in Las Vegas are in low-skilled service positions like office and administrative support, retail sales, food preparation and serving related occupations \u2014 repetitive and routine tasks ripe for automation.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t news to employees. When contracts between the Culinary and Bartenders unions and many large hospitality companies expired earlier this year, protections against automation were among the topics negotiated in the new five-year contracts.<\/p>\n

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My debate on #BasicIncome at the FreedomFest against Dr. Barbara Kolm, director at the Austrian Economic Center (debate moderated by syndicated columnist and scholar Veronique de Rugy) got a write-up in Nevada Current (article by journalist Jeniffer Solis). https:\/\/www.nevadacurrent.com\/\u2026\/universal-basic-income-tou\u2026\/ #FFest18 Earlier this month, the Vdara Hotel & Spa added two relay robots that deliver snacks, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1878,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-employment","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80694","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=80694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}