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Now welcome to this episode of the award-winning best of the left podcast in which we shall

learn about the ins, outs, highs, and lows of two of the most talked about proposals for

new social benefit programs, the universal basic income idea, and the guaranteed job program.

Today we'll hear arguments for and against both of them with clips from upstream Jack

Bitt radio, the other Washington, the next system project, the weeds from Vox and left

out from democracy at Burke.

So initially the idea was that there's more and more interest within the tech community,

four basic income as a policy.

And that's because there is an increased concern that current technological developments

might lead to a very bleak future for jobs and that we should start worrying about what

we are going to do when robots are taking over.

The age of robots has been anticipated since the beginning of the last century.

Are the droids taking our jobs?

The list of companies planning to replace human jobs with machines is growing.

47% of jobs in America are at or will be at risk of automation over the next two decades.

This is the single biggest job category in America.

That's correct.

And it could go away with the next two decades.

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