Category Archives: Income
Income Inequality Report – 2018
On December 14, 2017 renowned economists Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty published a comprehensive and exhaustively researched World Inequality Report. Here’s a summary of what they found. Income inequality has increased in nearly all world regions in recent decades, but at different speeds. In … Continue reading
Avatar Income
Background According to the 2016 World Economic Forum, “the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes developments in previously disjointed fields requiring college degrees such as artificial intelligence and machine-learning, robotics, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, and genetics and biotechnology, will cause widespread disruption not only to business models but also to labor markets … Continue reading
Universal Basic Income
America is running out of jobs. It’s time for a universal basic income.The politics of a guaranteed income get a lot easier when you acknowledge that the U.S. is no longer the land of opportunity Free money for everyone! With weak job growth, rising poverty, and the rich continuing to … Continue reading