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Don't fear or tax the robot
Rich Lowry
Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review. - photo by File photo
We have seen the enemy, and it is the robot. A wave of fear over automation is driving dire predictions about robots rendering swaths of Americans unemployable and has created a vogue for outlandishly stupid policy proposals. A popular idea in Silicon Valley is for a so-called universal basic income — the government would write everyone a monthly check — to cushion the unemployment effect of automation (never mind that such a policy would itself have an unemployment effect).
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mike thompson
Mike Thompson.
There’s something about the Fourth of July that makes us all kids again. The fireworks, the cookouts, the watermelon juice running down your arm—it’s pure Americana. And yes, for many of us, that includes a hot dog sizzling on the grill.
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