After Universal Basic Income, the Flood

What if we implement UBI and it makes everything worse?

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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Wait, scratch that — he won’t eat for a lifetime. Automation took over and fished the metaphorical seas dry.

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After Universal Basic Income, the Flood

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