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⑵“The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining.”
⑶— Stephen Hawking (–)
⑷automation [??t??me??n] n. 自动化
⑸traditional manufacturing 传统制造业
⑹artificial intelligence = AI 人工智能
⑺“If there’s not a need for your labor, do you feel useless?”
⑻“I think we'll just end up doing a universal basic ine...it's gonna be necessary. The harder challenge, the much harder challenge, is how do people then have meaning. Like, a lot of people, they derive the meaning from their employment. ...If you're not needed, if there's not a need for your labor, how do you...what's the meaning? Do you have meaning? Do you feel useless?...That's a much harder problem to deal with.”
⑼— Elon Musk
⑽derive...from 由来，得自
⑾Bill Gates proposed that governments start taxing robot workers the same way we tax human workers.
⑿tax: 对…征税
⒀? hardware and software is taxed at . percent.
⒁? The president called on the U.S. Congress to pass tax cuts of at least $ billion.
⒂tax cuts 减税
⒃”We should explore ideas like universal basic ine to make sure that everyone has a cushion to try new ideas," Zuckerberg said at his Harvard mencement address Thursday.
⒄. cushion n./ v. = protect from impact 缓和…的冲击
⒅? cushion the blow 降低冲击
⒆To cushion the blow, wages and pensions were increased.
⒇为了降低冲击，工资和养老金增加了。
⒈? extra funds serving as a cushion against future inflation
⒉作为抵制未来通货膨胀而进行缓冲的额外资金
⒊. mencement address 毕业演讲
⒋对于UBI的正反观点
⒌Proponents say the aim is to give workers greater financial security as concerns rise about machines taking away jobs. It's also intended to alleviate ine inequality.
⒍Critics say the idea has good intentions but it doesn't solve bigger problems related to abysmal wage growth in recent decades. They also say it challenges the notion that you need to work to earn money.
⒎"It's a misguided mission," says Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research center. "It's a tech CEO view of the world that I think is distorted."
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