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RE: Capitalism has a new problem: companies without employees
Automation is killing the middle class slowly but surely. As more and more jobs are automated, Basic income will ultimately be the savior of our economy.
Maybe yes. But this basic income might be difficult to implement. It needs support from the people, and money to pay for it.
Y Combinator (Startup incubator in silicon valley) is dumping money into a basic income study. Check it out; http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/can-high-profile-bay-area-tech-incubators-basic-income-plan-work/
The study results will be used for bigger Universal Basic Income studies
Thanks for info. I will try to follow this research.
One of the biggest problems I see in the basic income is the resistance of a lot of people to the idea that a job would no longer be the center of society. And with that I mean that a job would no longer be seen as the single way to proove that you contribute to society.
We created a whole culture based on having a job, but maybe we will have to change this sooner or later.
We are creating a new culture right here on Steemit! Maybe people will blog for a living in the future.