{"id":21217,"date":"2025-12-15T13:37:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/why-universal-basic-income-still-cant-meet-the-challenges-of-an-ai-economy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:37:49","slug":"why-universal-basic-income-still-cant-meet-the-challenges-of-an-ai-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/why-universal-basic-income-still-cant-meet-the-challenges-of-an-ai-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why universal basic income still can\u2019t meet the challenges of an AI economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Yang\u2019s revived pitch suits the automation debate, but UBI can\u2019t fix inequalities concentrated tech wealth drives<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/universal-basic-income\">Universal basic income<\/a> (UBI) is back, like a space zombie in a sci-fi movie, resurrected from policy oblivion, hungry for policymakers\u2019 attention: brains!<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Yang, whose \u201cYang Gang\u201d enthusiasm briefly shook up the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 promoting a \u201cFreedom Dividend\u201d to save workers from automation \u2013 $1,000 a month for every American adult \u2013 is again the main carrier of the bug: offering UBI to save the nation when robots eat all our jobs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/dec\/15\/universal-basic-income-ai-andrew-yang\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/68ed7334811badd4d3d19d65a8dd44208547f251\/602_0_4022_3217\/master\/4022.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ea01a1b32d8c2ea0c88e56ef36904da6\" title=\"Why universal basic income still can\u2019t meet the challenges of an AI economy\" \/>Andrew Yang\u2019s revived pitch suits the automation debate, but UBI can\u2019t fix inequalities concentrated tech wealth drives<br \/>\nUniversal basic income (UBI) is back, like a space zombie in a sci-fi movie, resurrected from policy oblivion, hungry for policymakers\u2019 attention: brains!<br \/>\nAndrew Yang, whose \u201cYang Gang\u201d enthusiasm briefly shook up the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 promoting a \u201cFreedom Dividend\u201d to save workers from automation \u2013 $1,000 a month for every American adult \u2013 is again the main carrier of the bug: offering UBI to save the nation when robots eat all our jobs. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Yang\u2019s revived pitch suits the automation debate, but UBI can\u2019t fix inequalities concentrated tech wealth drives Universal basic income (UBI) is back, like a space zombie in a sci-fi movie, resurrected from policy oblivion, hungry for policymakers\u2019 attention: brains! Andrew Yang, whose \u201cYang Gang\u201d enthusiasm briefly shook up the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/why-universal-basic-income-still-cant-meet-the-challenges-of-an-ai-economy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why universal basic income still can\u2019t meet the challenges of an AI economy<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}