This article appeared in The Guardian yesterday “It’s wrong to move straight from talking about automation to the need for a basic income, without talking about what is happening in the workplace and how we address that. Our work has produced quite a significant body of evidence that some industries are combining advances in technology with degraded work and conditions.” - Peter Nolan, professor of work at Leicester University and director of the Centre for Sustainable Work and Employment Futures
Hmmm, would they be talking about the working conditions inside Amazon.com warehouses ubiquitous in large metro areas? I bet Uber has some of this in their app, too... https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/19/basic-income-finland-low-wages-fewer-jobs?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=214061&subid=13042556&CMP=GT_US_collection Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <a...@acm.org> +1 (347) 766-5008 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
