If I Were Mark Zuckerberg Or Any

Basic Income Is Not A Utopia, It's A Practical Business Plan For The Next Step Of The Human Journey.

A Half Century From Now, Our Grandchildren Are Likely To Look Back At The Era Of Mass Employment In The Market With The Same Sense Of Utter Disbelief As We Look Upon Slavery And Serfdom In Former Times. The Very Idea That A Human Being's Worth Was Measured Almost Exclusively By His Or Her Productive Output Of Goods And Services And Material Wealth Will Seem Primitive, Even Barbaric, And Be Regarded As A Terrible Loss Of Human Value To Our Progeny Living In A Highly Automated World Where Much Of Life Is Lived On The Collaborative Commons.

What The Public Needs To Understand Is That These New Technologies, Especially In Recombinant Dna Technology, Allow Scientists To Bypass Biological Boundaries Altogether.

They're Now Turning Those Seeds Into Intellectual Property, So They Have A Virtual Lock On The Seeds Upon Which We All Depend For Our Food And Survival.

We Need A Game Plan To Deploy It Very Quickly To Both Move The Economy Forward And Create The New Businesses And Jobs, And Address Climate Change. It's A Pretty Big Task. Pretty Challenging.