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user-inactivated  ·  3755 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Basic Income Means Basic Freedom

I'm with you on employment. I don't have the expertise to back it up (yet), but I've long held that what we consider "full employment" is an anachronistic number in today's economy. It doesn't account for the unprecedented levels of structural unemployment we're seeing, or for the increasing idea that work isn't our default setting.

I'm not sure we'll ever go back to pre-2008 levels. The economy is evolving.





Rascale  ·  3739 days ago  ·  link  ·  

agreed, this exchange of labour for wages is out dated and increasingly irrelevant every year due to automaton, robotics and a host of other advancements occurring at an escalating rate every year.