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I’m a big believer in the concept that serious problems require serious solutions. For that reason, whenever I hear people say that Universal Basic Income (UBI) can solve the problem of job automation, I tend to be skeptical. Maybe UBI is a solution that could work for a couple of years, but it’s definitely not a long-term solution. Those who believe it is a solution are missing one key element: politics. The naive view may be that since automation would lead to mass unemployment, there would be a majority of people who support UBI, and therefore the government would want to enact it. But that is not how power works in politics; with greater automation economic and industrial power would be more concentrated in the hands of corporate interests. These interests would have a lot more sway in government policies than they already do today (if you can believe that). So any politician who wants to finance their election campaign would need.. Read more 👇 https://paragraph.xyz/@abundance/why-ubi-wont-work

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