Basic Income Is Already Transforming Life and Work In a Postindustrial Canadian City

In Hamilton, Ontario, a basic income pilot is improving individual lives—but bureaucratic pitfalls and tepid goals can limit its potential. Continue reading Basic Income Is Already Transforming Life and Work In a Postindustrial Canadian City

For the Cost of Republican Tax Cuts, We Can Give Working Americans Up to $18,000 a Year

Instead of corporate tax cuts for big companies that can be used to create more robots, we could allow Americans to benefit from the wealth automation creates. Continue reading For the Cost of Republican Tax Cuts, We Can Give Working Americans Up to $18,000 a Year

For the Cost of Republican Tax Cuts, We Can Give Working Americans Up to $18,000 a Year

Instead of corporate tax cuts for big companies that can be used to create more robots, we could allow Americans to benefit from the wealth automation creates. Continue reading For the Cost of Republican Tax Cuts, We Can Give Working Americans Up to $18,000 a Year

Why an ‘Assembled in America’ iPhone Won’t Bring Back Skilled Manufacturing Jobs

It’s going to take a lot more than a trade war with China to stop forces like automation from transforming manufacturing. Continue reading Why an ‘Assembled in America’ iPhone Won’t Bring Back Skilled Manufacturing Jobs

Eliminating Money, Taxes, and Ownership Will Bring Forth Technoutopia

Visiting futurist Jacque Fresco, whose magnum opus is The Venus Project, a 21-acre Central Florida Eden with white dome-shaped buildings that Meadows and he hand built over three and a half decades. Continue reading Eliminating Money, Taxes, and Ownership Will Bring Forth Technoutopia