{"id":74716,"date":"2016-11-07T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=74716"},"modified":"2016-11-07T13:01:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T18:01:31","slug":"elon-musk-automation-universal-basic-income-economic-necessity","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/elon-musk-automation-universal-basic-income-economic-necessity","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk: As Automation Eliminates Jobs, Universal Basic Income Becomes an Economic Necessity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s widely accepted now that as robots and automation penetrate more industries, certain roles once held by humans will become obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>This, of course, has an upside and a downside. Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX\u2014companies at the forefront of technologies that can replace humans\u2014says that for automation to not ruin economies, a &#8220;universal basic income&#8221; is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there&#8217;s a pretty good chance we end up with a universal basic income due to automation,&#8221; Musk told CNBC. &#8220;I&#8217;m not sure what else what would do. I think that&#8217;s what would work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elon Musk: Moving Toward Universal Basic Income Due To Automation | CNBC\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vJgtRBkFnfw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People would have more time to do more complex things, more interesting things,&#8221; Musk added.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/10\/31\/tesla-solar-roof<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s widely accepted now that as robots and automation penetrate more industries, certain roles once held by humans will become obsolete. This, of course, has an upside and a downside. Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX\u2014companies at the forefront of technologies that can replace humans\u2014says that for automation to not ruin economies, a &#8220;universal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":69753,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-74716","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/74716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/74716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/69753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74716"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=74716"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=74716"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=74716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}