Samenvatting

Historian Yuval Harari writes in his 21 Lessons for the 21st Century that due to increasing automation and robotization, large groups of people will probably become completely redundant in the labour market in the near future. He proposes a basic income as a solution. In this article it is argued that it may be a solution to fight poverty, but in itself it doesn’t provide meaningful connectedness, which is an important result of labour.