Y Combinator is giving people $2k a month to see what happens when robots take our jobs
Jun07
Y Combinator announced plans for a pilot program that would provide $2,000 monthly to (up to) 100 residents of Oakland to see what life might look like after our Roomba’s and laundry-folding robots rise up and take our jobs. The accelerator hired a researcher to lead the project, described as a short-term study to better understand the impact of a society in which many jobs are outsourced to automation. The test is part one of a five-year research project on the social and behavioral changes brought about by guaranteeing all adults a basic income to covering minimum living expenses as robots and…
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