The Algorithmic Paycheck

Labor Policy, Technological Unemployment, and Universal Basic Income in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

von Pasquale Ruggiero

452 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

- the automation of cognitive labor and the erosion of middle-skill employment; - structural unemployment, occupational polarization, platform work, and algorithmic management; - universal basic income-and the danger that economic security could become a new instrument of digital control; - alternative policies, including shorter working hours, participation income, automation taxes, and renewed welfare systems; - the concentration of data, models, and infrastructure in the hands of a small number of global actors; - the struggle between democratic sovereignty and technological power. At the center of this inquiry lies a deeper question: if paid work can no longer guarantee income, identity, and social recognition, on what foundation will citizenship rest?Through economic analysis, political reflection, and philosophical inquiry, The Algorithmic Paycheck presents three possible futures: unregulated algorithmic capitalism, democratic governance of AI, and an unfinished post-work society. None is inevitable.This is not a book against innovation. It is a book about the choices that must guide it-because a civilization should not be measured only by the power of its machines, but by its ability to distribute prosperity, protect dignity, and preserve the human bonds that hold society together.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176363326
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published