Name: TEDx】全民收入需要注重公民責任｜Raf Manji｜TEDx基督教堂 (【TEDx】A Universal Income needs a focus on citizen responsibility | Raf Manji | TEDxChristchurch)
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Imagine a world where there are 50 per cent fewer jobs.

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where robots actually do all the work and there are no jobs for humans.

Seems kind of far-fetched, but what would it mean?

Would it be a robo-dystopia, or would it be a robo-utopia?

These are questions that we have to consider.

Futurists are now talking to us about the potential loss

of up to two billion jobs in the next 15 to 20 years,

the hollowing out of our middle job market.

Now, on one hand, as we're seeing today, there's an an enormous amount

of disrupted technology coming down the chain:

diagnostic advances, virtual reality, 3D printing,

They all have the ability to disrupt our current systems.

They also have the ability to bring unimaginable benefits to us.

We don't know what they'll be, hard to see what the future is.

to entrench and exacerbate existing inequalities.

We've seen that the gains have gone to the one per cent

and welfare systems struggling to respond.

The traditional policy responses of the left and the right:

which is the heroin of our financial system,

a welfare system which only operates if you're looking for work.

If there are no jobs, what are we going to do?

We need to start thinking about separating income from work.

To many women, this is not a new or revolutionary idea.

looking after the sick and elderly, of whom there will be a lot more,

A huge amount of unpaid work goes on in our society,

but also other things like arts, culture, research, innovation.

They all have a huge impact and contribution to our society,

One possible solution is to think about a universal basic income.

This would be a regular monthly or annual payment

It would completely eliminate the welfare system,

having to go to multiple agencies and fill out forms

"Well, how are we going to afford that? Where does all the money come from?"

Let's get that out of the way straight away.

global central banks have created 12 trillion dollars

This is the balance sheet of all the Federal Reserve Banks in the US.

The balance sheet expanded by four trillion dollars in six years

and improve the balance sheets of the banks.

If they can create that much money to bail out the banks,

I think we can find the money to sort out a basic income.

There are trials going on all around the world at the moment:

in the Netherlands, in India, in Canada, in Finland.

And France just published a report last week

where they're going to propose three new trials,

On that note, this is not a new or novel idea.

Talking of "Utopia," 500 years ago, in 1516,

Thomas More laid out his vision of Utopia,

and in his book he had the first reference to a basic income.

Fellow humanist Jean Louis Vivès, in 1526,

on why poverty was such a huge problem to eliminate.

His conclusion in his book on assistance to the poor

was the only way to eliminate poverty and crime and poor health,

was to make sure everybody had a basic standard of living.

and a lot of other people thought it was pretty sensible, too.

The third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson,

Thomas Paine, who wrote the 1791 book "The Rights of Man,"

and the 16th US President, Abraham Lincoln,

whether it was in cash or whether it was in land,

Henry George, in his 1879 book "Progress and Poverty"

in a period of technological and social advance,

that a lot of gains went to land owners and land prices.

He suggested a single tax on land, known as the 'land value tax,'

which would support the ability to invest in public infrastructure

Martin Luther King spent a lot of time looking at George's works,

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