Description
If AI and automation take all of the jobs, how will we provide for everyone’s needs? Universal Basic Income? Negative tax rates? Universal Services? Investments and new equilibrium? How will we fund the future?
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Topics:
Expectations of the future jobs market
Bain and Company, Macro-trends Group: https://www.bain.com/insights/labor-2030-the-collision-of-demographics-automation-and-inequality/
Universal Basic Income
Andrew Yang’s UBI Freedom Dividend: https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/
Cost of UBI
Kimberly Amadeo, US Economy Expert with The Balance: https://www.thebalance.com/universal-basic-income-4160668
Poverty levels and the relationship with UBI
Relationship between government and citizens
Mark Kincheloe https://www.singularityweblog.com/a-universal-basic-income-is-not-the-solution/
UBI and inflation
UBI in other nations
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/23/finland-to-end-basic-income-trial-after-two-years
Guaranteed Employment
Government guarantees of employment
Historical example: Civilian Conservation Corp.
Work verses productivity
Universal Basic Services
Government provision of basic needs and services
Universal basic services could work better than basic income to combat 'rise of the robots', say experts https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/universal-basic-services-idea-better-basic-income-citizens-social-housing-ucl-a7993476.html
Balance of needs
Challenges with availability and distribution of resources
Tax Plans
Public Policy and Government Review: Exploring Alternatives to the Universal Basic Income: https://ppgreview.ca/2017/03/31/exploring-alternatives-to-the-universal-basic-income/
Negative tax rates
Tax Credits
New Equilibrium and Investment
Lowering costs and incomes create a new balance
The Singularity as a driver of economic growth
Robin Hanson, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/robotics-software/economics-of-the-singularity
Personal investment in automation as a means of generating income
The challenges of maximum participation
Kevin Morris, Electronic Engineering Journal, https://www.eejournal.com/article/fear-the-economic-singularity/
What to expect from an accelerating economy
William Nordhaus, Are We Approaching Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growth: https://www.nber.org/papers/w21547.pdf
Will new jobs fill the void?
For the Church
Dealing with a diversity of opinions with grace
Binding and loosing – values in contemporary practical application
Was the early church Socialist or Communist?
Thomas More’s Utopia and UBI
Dealing with covetousness, greed, and charity
Ministry of compassion
Finding meaning apart from work
Looking Ahead
Stanford researchers develop artificial intelligence tool to help detect brain aneurysms
https://news.stanford.edu/2019/06/07/ai-tool-helps-radiologists-detect-brain-aneurysms/
Scripture Passages Referenced
Deuteronomy 15:11
Matthew 16:19
Acts 4:34-35
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Space may be the final frontier, but what technology will be required to really get us out there, beyond our solar systems and out among the stars. What emerging technology will shape the future of space exploration? Part 1 of 2.
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Entering a new age of space exploration
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Published 06/07/20
Easter greetings and reflections on Holy Saturday.
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Published 04/11/20