{"id":292805,"date":"2017-02-02T00:32:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T23:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/universal-basic-income-far-fetched-or-inevitable\/"},"modified":"2017-02-02T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T15:56:54","slug":"universal-basic-income-far-fetched-or-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/universal-basic-income-far-fetched-or-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Basic Income: Far-Fetched or Inevitable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\"14\">It is a utopian idea, literally, but is enjoying a renaissance as politicians and policy wonks grapple with technology-driven changes that could redefine our very understanding of work.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\"15\">If robots and machine intelligence threaten to render many white-collar jobs obsolete, then what will people do for money?<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\"16\">Enter the concept of a &#8220;universal basic income&#8221;, a flat sum paid to all regardless of your existing wealth or ability to work. It is one of the rare ideas that has support from both the libertarian right &#8212; which favours tearing up the welfare state &#8212; and the left wing.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\"17\">In France, Benoit Hamon has emerged as the surprise Socialist candidate for April&#8217;s presidential election first round, on a radical programme that includes such an income &#8212; to be funded in part by a new tax on industrial robots.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\"18\">National or local governments in other countries such as Finland, the Netherlands, Canada, Scotland and Brazil are already evaluating how such a revenue might work in practice.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\"19\">Finland is furthest down the road. On January 1 it started&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/universal-basic-income-far-fetched-or-inevitable\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a utopian idea, literally, but is enjoying a renaissance as politicians and policy wonks grapple with technology-driven changes that could redefine our very understanding of work. If robots and machine intelligence threaten to render many white-collar jobs obsolete, then what will people do for money? Enter the concept of a &#8220;universal basic income&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}