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[...] Silicon Valley has a stroke stake in national debates over whether automation technology, such as self-driving cars, will take all ourjobs. Universal basic income is one form of "automationalimony" that is proposed to relieve the rising inequality often attributed to automation.

[...] frame their technologies as powerful engines of job creation. [...] While society may benefit from automated work, the fear is that these benefits will not be distributed equally: jobless futures imply some will get left behind. This threat isnot an inherent characteristic of technology but, …

[...] according to the company, its drivers are not workers atall - they are"consumers" of Uber's technology serivces, just as passengersare. [...] Uber's lawyers exlained thatthe company's drivers are actually customers of its software. "Fundamentally, the commercial relationship between these dri…

[...] Uber's employment model was born in the so-called sharing economy, a social technology movement that capitalized on the economicinstablity of the Great Recession to sell a narrative. [...]

[...] according to the company, its drivers are not workers atall - they are"consumers" of Uber's technology serivces, just as passengersare. [...] Uber's lawyers exlained thatthe company's drivers are actually customers of its software. "Fundamentally, the commercial relationship between these dri…