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Aaron Bastani is thinking about automated luxury…communism?

The TED Interview

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Is There a Universal Basic Income?

Mark O'Mara's new book is about the idea of universal basic services. It differs from a similar phrase, universal basic income which has been championed in some ways by the silican valley world. He argues that it would be unaffordable and could push people into higher marginal tax brackets. The last word of the title of your book is communism, right? And there are some unlikely kind of intellectual bedfellows in this book," he says.

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