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Universal Basic Income Is the Path to an Entirely New Economic System
Sooner rather than later, a robot is going to be able to do part or all of what you do for a living. In response to this and other pressures, the Canadian province of Ontario is gearing up to launch a basic income trial this summer. For a limited period of time, and in three regions across the province, the government will be giving people a living wage, for free and with no strings attached, and seeing how the hell it goes, eh?
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I feel the need to continue bringing this up on every article about UBI... as the additional contribution states for the UK, the USA versions cost at just poverty level is pushing 2.7 Trillion dollars, basically, as much as our entire budget right now, if you come back with the this will replace social programs, well that still won't matter because they only account for something like 350 Billion of that budget. You would need to charge every robot and person the same way, and even then a 6 Trillion dollar budget just isn't feasible without some major changes.
Isn't this how the Robot Wars start?