News Flash: Job Loss from Automation and Addressing Climate Change Are Opposite Problems

"The idea of guaranteed income is gaining traction, from the presidential debate stage to Silicon Valley, where tech titans such as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have promoted it as a way to fend off a gloomy future in which automation and climate change eliminate millions of jobs."

This came up as a throwaway line in an article about a trial program for a guaranteed basic income. The problem is that the type of of job losses being described here are 180 percent opposite from each other.

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