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Brishen Rogers is an Associate Professor at Temple University's Beasley School of Law, and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Prior to law school, he worked as a community organizer promoting living wage policies and affordable housing, and spent several years organizing workers as part of SEIU’s “Justice for Janitors” campaign.
Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.
The problem of employer power runs much deeper than monopsony.
Critics of raising the minimum wage claim that it decreases employment, but they are missing the larger point.
When proponents deploy the logic of market competition, they undermine democracy and social equality.
Each week, another magazine, book, or think tank sketches a dystopian near-future in which automation renders workers unnecessary. Is a basic income the solution?
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