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Future Society

Universal Basic Income: The Answer to Automation?

By Luke Kingma

Updated May 12, 2016 2:46 PM EDT

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Luke Kingma

Former copywriter turned journalist. Crawled through a river of obtrusive display ads, and came out clean on the other side. Now serving as Head of Creative at Futurism.

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