Wise Cities & the Universal Basic Income: Facing the Challenges of Inequality, the 4th Industrial Revolution and the New Socioeconomic Paradigm
- Autores: Josep M. Coll
- Localización: Notes internacionals CIDOB, ISSN-e 2013-4428, Nº. 183, 2017, págs. 1-5
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
An unprecedented wave of scientific and technological progress in digitalisation, robotics, artificial intelligence and genomics is challenging the sustainability of employment and the social organisation of work.
This future scenario is attracting increasing attention from policymakers, business, academia and civil society all over the world, as the social organisation of the current capitalist system is under threat.
Wise Cities have emerged as a new human-centred development paradigm in which cities foster interdependently creative and knowledge-based economies along with predistribution policies, which are two sides of the same coin.
Today, many decades after Thomas More proposed it, the universal basic income (UBI), emerges as a solution to increasing levels of inequality, job precariousness and social exclusion.
Experimental policies are mostly city-driven. The UBI resurgence is framed in a context in which cities and sub-national regions are developing new schemes of local governance that have global impact.
The question is no longer whether the UBI is a political enterprise worth launching: there is a wide consensus on its necessity.
The real issue is how to start implementing such a scheme.
