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Provocative Viewing: Will Robots Make Us Poor? Universal Basic Income And The Robot Tax (youtube.com)
Rapid development of self-driving vehicles, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected to aggravate inequality, as wealth goes to those who own the robots. Technologists and politicians are proposing solutions like universal basic income and job retraining to keep job displacement from leading to poverty and homelessness. While many see the coming problems, there is little agreement on how to fund them, and few doubt the degree of expected change.
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    Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst Universal Basic Income? Dystopia of displaced low skilled workers? Why not looking ahead? Technology will bring new kind of jobs which will free humans from manual work as the new agricultural machines and textile mills freed humans from work in the 18 and 19th century. The concept of work, capitalism or socialism, and social and work relationships will have to change too.