Universal Basic Income, Job Killing Robots, and the Washington Post

Back in my teaching days I would use the seriously wrong answers on student exams as valuable information telling me what concepts I need to explain better. Charles Lane's Washington Post column on a universal basic income can be used the same way. Lane clearly does not like the idea of a universal basic income (UBI), but his confused rationale ties together many common misunderstandings.

First, the whole idea of job-killing robots is more than a bit bizarre for a couple of reasons. Robots ki...