Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income? (Update)
Freakonomics Radio17 Syys 2025

Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income? (Update)

A lot of jobs in the modern economy don’t pay a living wage, and some of those jobs may be wiped out by new technologies. So what’s to be done? We revisit an episode from 2016 for a potential solution.

  • SOURCES:
    • Erik Brynjolfsson, professor of economics at Stanford University.
    • Evelyn Forget, professor of economics and community health sciences at the University of Manitoba.
    • Sam Altman, C.E.O. of OpenAI.
    • Robert Gordon, professor emeritus of economics at Northwestern University.
    • Greger Larson, professor of archeology at the University of Oxford.


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