Raphael Gray, "Learning to Live With Machines"

We need not fear him. Photograph: Getty Images.

[Craig Axford]

SUMMARY: With technology increasingly taking the place of unskilled workers in particular, this article argues a basic income guarantee offers a way to provide a universal safety net that will enable us to adjust to the changing relationship between capital and work.  The Swiss, the author claims, may be the first country to demonstrate adopting a BIG may be politically feasible.

Raphael Gray, “Learning to Live With Machines: We need to take the idea of a universal basic income seriously”, New Statesman, March 26, 2014