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Podcast: Faith and Economics
Episode: AI and Universal Unemployment | #313
Description:
A recent article makes the now familiar claim that AI will render most of the population unemployable. Rather than advocate for a universal basic income, the author argues that we should use the state to shape the labor market to guarantee employment. This is a 'jobs program', but for everyone! Is this really the least-bad option?