Are Technological Unemployment and a Basic Income Guarantee Inevitable or Desirable?

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  • James Hughes Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

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https://doi.org/10.55613/jeet.v24i1.9

Abstract

The question is a simple one: if in the future robots take most people’s jobs, how will human beings eat? The answer that has been more or less obvious to most of those who have taken the prospect seriously has been that society’s wealth would need to be re-distributed to support everyone as a citizen’s right. That is the proposition we used to frame this special issue of the journal, and the contributors have explored new and important dimensions of the equation.

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2014-02-01

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Vol. 24 No. 1 (2014): Technological Unemployment and the Basic Income Guarantee

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Are Technological Unemployment and a Basic Income Guarantee Inevitable or Desirable?. (2014). Journal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies, 24(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.55613/jeet.v24i1.9