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#330 - Theo Priestley & Bronwyn Williams - What Will The Future Look Like?

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The Future of Universal Basic Income

I don't see any sort of universal basic in-time type proposal as being anything other than a band-aid over a very failed society what we are actually working towards. We are working towards a post-job world jobs are less and less attractive particularly to young people even in my country which has some of the highest employment and inequality rates in the world. I think you've been gainfully unemployed for a large part of your career too so that comes with a lot less security than universal basic income or salary would give you but it also come with a lot more freedom. It's quite ironic that it's rich old men in political power in Europe that are trying to sell us some ideas of

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