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242. Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income?

Freakonomics Radio
Freakonomics Radio
Episode • Apr 14, 2016 • 36m

A lot of full-time jobs in the modern economy simply don't pay a living wage. And even those jobs may be obliterated by new technologies. What's to be done so that financially vulnerable people aren't just crushed? It may finally be time for an idea that economists have promoted for decades.

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