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Universal Public Income for Capitalists
The U.S. should embrace Universal Public Income wholesale. For money.
The Tin Man Cometh
Many of the jobs currently being performed by human beings will soon be performed by machines. Creativity will be the new currency, and a new system of compensation and incentive will be necessary.
As radical as it sounds, Universal Public Income is the solution.
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Not free money.
“We should be excited about automation, because what it could potentially mean is more time educating ourselves, more time creating art, more time investing in and investigating the sciences, more time focused on invention, more time going to space, more time enjoying the world that we live in. Because not all creativity needs to be bonded by wage.” — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
AOC has a point; it is hard to write a novel. I have no idea how J.K. Rowling, balancing a brood of kids and minimum-wage job, stayed on her writing grind, day after day, month and month, year after year, while the rejection letters piled up next to the dirty dishes and overdue bills. I honestly don’t.
If you grew up in the public education system in America, you were trained and measured more than you were…