(Not quite universal) basic income

When the supporters of UBI come back with concrete proposals for national systems in five or 10 years’ time, they may have much more solid arguments than they do now.

If you want to understand the rise of Donald Trump you first have to acknowledge what automation is doing to jobs, especially in the United States. And then you have to figure out how to prevent this huge shift from causing a great political, economic and social disaster, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 1, 2017

LONDON, ENGLAND—In Switzerland last June, they had a referendum on a universal basic income that would have given each adult Swiss citizen $2,500 per month. It was a truly universal basic income, because it would have gone to everybody whether they were working or not—and the horrified Swiss rej...

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