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Category: Behavioral Economics, Government, Robot
How many people are living in the precariat, i.e. in precarious economic and financial situations, is relentlessly revealed by the measures that governments around the world are currently taking to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Curfews, forced closures of shops, restaurants and event venues, as well as border closures and travel bans, are massively …
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Category: Artificial Intelligence, Government
The universal basic income has recently been in the spotlight a lot and gotten some controversy. “Who’s going to pay for this?” and “This will just add to the laziness of people!” are some of the arguments against it. “Automation will bring millions of unemployed, we need the basic income!” are the arguments on the …
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Category: Government, Startup
This was a question on Quora, to which I wrote the following response. And there are quite a number of things. The obvious are of course: Make it easy to incorporate (online, no or low registration fees, no need of go-between services such as notaries or lawyers, low or now capital requirements) tax breaks for …
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Category: Government
A picture from the current UN summit in NYC struck me as very interesting, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a conversation with German chancellor Angela Merkel. And the topic they discussed? According to Spiegel Online they were talking about hate postings and how Facebook is dealing with them. Just to bring you on …
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