Those calling for a government-funded universal basic income are acting as though it’s a hot new idea. It’s not. It’s been tried before—and it didn’t work. In essence, universal basic income—also ...

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The results of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's guaranteed-basic-income study are in. Overall spending increased, but most of the extra cash went to food and rent. Recipients experienced decreased financial ...

Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it’s a shame more people don’t learn to do it. For years now, that’s been a hugely popular stance. It’s led to educational initiatives as ...

How the pandemic took the concept of universal basic income out of Silicon Valley’s hands—and turned it into something far more radical. Several years ago, when Elizabeth Softky first heard of the ...

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People who got their first taste of IT during the microcomputer boom in the 1970s and 1980s almost certainly started by writing programs in Basic — or, at least, they debugged programs typed in from ...

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Grab your Michael Kors bag, crank up Taylor Swift's Red album and head on out to Starbucks for a Pumpkin Spice Latte because it's officially basic b--ch season. At 3:50 a.m. ET on Monday, September 23 ...