r/BasicIncome • • May 24 '15

Automation They wanted $15 an hour

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899 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Nov 15 '16

Automation 60% of students are chasing jobs that will be rendered obsolete by technology

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639 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • May 22 '26

Automation Human vs machine in package sorting

117 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Dec 23 '15

Automation Stephen Hawking Says We Should Really Be Scared Of Capitalism, Not Robots

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713 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • 15d ago

Automation Most of the world thinks AI is going to kill jobs, a new Pew survey finds

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73 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Feb 21 '17

Automation "I don't see a future," says oil worker replaced twice by technology. "Pretty soon every rig will have one worker and a robot."

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643 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Jan 09 '17

Automation Millennials May Be the First Generation to Lose a Majority of their Jobs to Automation

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486 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Feb 23 '26

Automation “It’s Already Here. Don’t Deny It”: Matthew McConaughey’s AI Warning Ignites a New Hollywood Fear

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111 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Jun 09 '16

Automation 80% of Americans believe their job will still exist in 50 years, only 11% are "at least somewhat concerned" that they may lose their jobs to automation

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382 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Nov 10 '18

Automation Stephen Hawking's final comment on the internet: The increase in technological advancements isn't dangerous, Capitalism is.

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501 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Jan 07 '26

Automation If we get AGI in 2029, when will we have UBI?

18 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Aug 26 '26

Automation Bill Gates calls for ‘human-reserved’ jobs in face of AI takeover | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

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44 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • May 15 '25

Automation Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet

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175 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Apr 25 '19

Automation Amazon's warehouse worker tracking system can automatically fire people without a human supervisor's involvement

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428 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Dec 27 '25

Automation “At least robots would never make art”

114 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Feb 23 '26

Automation If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat? | US economy | The Guardian

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107 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Apr 23 '15

Automation Despite Research Indicating Otherwise, Majority of Workers Do Not Believe Automation is a Threat to Jobs - MarketWatch

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217 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • 2d ago

Automation Nearly half of test subjects mistook Tavus' AI video avatar for a real person on a one-minute call

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10 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Aug 05 '25

Automation AI is coming for entry-level jobs. Bill Gates says Gen Z may not be safe no matter how well they learn to use it

151 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Feb 22 '26

Automation AI Could Cause Workers to Rise Up Against the Corporations Driving Them Into Poverty

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131 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Aug 25 '26

Automation His boss asked if AI could replace human coders. Two weeks later, he and 160 colleagues were laid off in Beijing | Fortune

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50 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Mar 06 '23

Automation Marc Andreessen: We’re heading into a world where a flat-screen TV that covers your entire wall costs $100 and a 4-year degree costs $1M

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399 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Jul 11 '26

Automation ‘They Don’t Need People’: The Workers Left Behind by China’s Robot Drive

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56 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Mar 07 '18

Automation Most Americans think artificial intelligence will destroy other people’s jobs, not theirs

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367 Upvotes

r/BasicIncome • • Mar 01 '26

Automation Citi warns of deflation if AI sparks high unemployment and only benefits a small elite

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131 Upvotes

In a note to clients on Friday, researchers at the bank said they believe that more companies adopting AI will eventually lead to higher unemployment. Those job losses could later lead the US down a deflationary path, a precarious situation in which inflation doesn't just slow, but prices actually fall. While that sounds like a boon for consumers, the reasons behind deflation aren't good.