Let’s Build an Automated Abundance Economy

Let’s Build an Automated Abundance Economy

We’re living through a technological shift unlike any in history. As artificial intelligence and robotics rapidly evolve, they're doing more than just changing how we work—they're changing why we work. Over the next decade, if humanity can share automation tech evenly across society, we’re facing the real possibility that most people simply won’t need to work to survive. Some futurists, including myself, are calling this the Automated Abundance …

Cash, Not Control: A Global History of Basic Income

If you pay attention to public policy discussions, you know that people have proposed a Basic Income Guarantee or a Universal Basic Income as one option among many to deal with technological unemployment or the distributional consequences of new technologies like generative AI. You might not know that the idea of a Basic Income is nothing new, and it has a long and interesting history. That’s what the historian Anton Jäger and the historical soc…