[Josh Martin]
Brain wrote this post partially due to his participation in an “Ask Me Anything” thread on Reddit for Basic Income Week, and in it he conducts a thought experiment on what sort of society we wish to live in. He then takes this thought experiment and applies it to the current situation in the USA, including a debate on what level the minimum wage should be. However, with jobs systematically being replaced by robot automation, Brain urges the reader to consider a basic income as a way to combat systemic unemployment and to reach aspects of an ideal society today.
Marshall Brain, “Why and How Should We Build a Basic Income for Every Citizen?”, MarshallBrain.com, 15 September 2014.
Republished by the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
(Source: MarshallBrain.com)
