365 | Michael Lind: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America
The Realignment
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The UBI a Universal Basic
There is kind of a convergence between some of the techno libertarians and the socialist on a UBI. The theory is that thanks to automation, thanks to productivity growth, fewer and fewer people will be needed to contribute to the productivity economy. And at that point, you no longer need people as workers, but you need to miss consumers to have a mass market for the Star Trek synthesizer goods. So, so you just tax. There's usually an elitist eugenics and Nietzsche and elements. But I the Silicon Valley person, or I the lefty professor, I will always have a job, right?
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