The idea of basic income has been appearing among the tech-bro elite a lot lately. Mega-investor and Netscape creator Marc Andreessen recently told New York magazine that he considers it “a very interesting idea,” and Sam Altman of the boutique incubator Y Combinator calls its implementation an “obvious conclusion.” Albert Wenger, a New York–based venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures, has been blogging about basic income since 2013. We are at the beginning of the time where machines will do a lot of the things humans have traditionally done, Wenger told me in October. How do you avoid a massive bifurcation of society into those who have wealth and those who don’t? He has proposed holding a basic-income experiment in the dystopian fantasyland of Detroit...
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 19:00:19 +0000
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