Saturday, November 7, 2015

Scott Ferguson — universal basic income: a laissez-faire future

My claim, here, is that Srnicek and Williams’s Inventing the Future errs in the way it poses the problem of unemployment under neoliberalism and that this confused formulation generates a desire for UBI that is not only politically wrongheaded, but also contradicts the book’s professed goal of systemic transformation. The UBI may provide relief from some contemporary ills. But I suggest that it cannot bear the weight of the total transformation Srnicek and Williams are after.…
the unheard-of center
universal basic income: a laissez-faire future
Scott Ferguson

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