Robert Toombs
1 min readMar 6, 2019

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As part of the mix, sure. There’s no question that our personal data has value, and it’s absurd that we aren’t in control of/compensated for that value. But a data dividend can only be part of the picture in an automated world, since it is likely to miss many thousands of lower-income, elderly, and/or very young residents of any particular state. UBI, tagged to a Social Security number, still seems to have the broadest reach, and I would be happy to see both ideas working in tandem.

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Robert Toombs
Robert Toombs

Written by Robert Toombs

Dramatists Guild member, Climate Reality activist. Words WILL save the world, dangit.

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