What did the American slaves earn with their involuntary servitude? An attaboy and a pat on the back? Unfortunately, they earned even less than that. They earned nothing in terms of profit during that four century exploitation and they received nothing at the moment of emancipation. What about the price we paid in American lives …
TLDR (Too Long, Didn’t Read): Universal basic income (UBI) will probably help America. UBI will not make people lazy. Automation will probably increase the number of jobs in America instead of decreasing them. Meaningful work is very different than meaningless wage labor. The suggestion that people should find identity and meaning through wage labor is …