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Basic Income in a Just Society

Each week, another magazine, book, or think tank sketches a dystopian near-future in which automation renders workers unnecessary. Is a basic income the solution?

Brishen Rogers

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Basic income might hurt the cause.

Patrick Diamond

What would it look like to govern technology?

Annette Bernhardt

Basic income would empower marginalized black workers.

Tommie Shelby

We should be focusing on base income.

Peter Barnes

Basic income should be a right of residency, not citizenship.

Juliana Bidadanure

Basic income could function as reparations.

Dorian T. Warren

Market economies can adjust to create new kinds of work.

Diane Coyle

A basic income empowers workers.

Philippe Van Parijs

A basic income needs to redistribute wealth and power.

Connie Razza

The biggest ill a basic income might heal is fear.

Roy Bahat

We need an income floor and new institutions to influence wages.

David Rolf

We need an income floor and new institutions to influence wages.

Corrie Watterson

Final Response: Basic income without social insurance may do more harm than good.

Brishen Rogers

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