This extra credit assignment will require you to read and summarize the key points in the following three essays. What are the main points of each article? What do you think about the economic and political implications of each of these articles?

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/bill-gates-and-elon-musk-just-warned-us-about-the-one-thing-politicians-are-too-scared-to-talk-8db9815fd398#.fqm7t0zcp (链接到外部网站。)链接到外部网站。

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/15/opinions/the-robot-scabs-are-coming-to-take-your-jobs-howard-opinion/index.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/the-parts-of-america-most-susceptible-to-automation/525168/ (链接到外部网站。)链接到外部网站。

The second part of the extra credit deals with the guaranteed income proposal. Mark Zuckerberg supported the concept in his graduation speech at Harvard a couple of weeks ago. Read the following articles and then answer the questions below:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/26/news/economy/mark-zuckerberg-universal-basic-income/index.html (链接到外部网站。)链接到外部网站。

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnzogby/2017/05/29/zuckerbergs-most-powerful-idea-yet/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/ (链接到外部网站。)链接到外部网站。

How would the guaranteed income work? What do you think would happen if we adopted it in the U.S.? What if we didn’t adopt it?

 This extra credit assignment will require you to read and summarize the key points in the following three essays. What are the main points of each article? What do you think about the economic and political implications of each of these articles?

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/bill-gates-and-elon-musk-just-warned-us-about-the-one-thing-politicians-are-too-scared-to-talk-8db9815fd398#.fqm7t0zcp (链接到外部网站。)链接到外部网站。

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/15/opinions/the-robot-scabs-are-coming-to-take-your-jobs-howard-opinion/index.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/the-parts-of-america-most-susceptible-to-automation/525168/ (链接到外部网站。)链接到外部网站。

The second part of the extra credit deals with the guaranteed income proposal. Mark Zuckerberg supported the concept in his graduation speech at Harvard a couple of weeks ago. Read the following articles and then answer the questions below:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/26/news/economy/mark-zuckerberg-universal-basic-income/index.html (链接到外部网站。)链接到外部网站。

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnzogby/2017/05/29/zuckerbergs-most-powerful-idea-yet/&refURL=https://www.google.com/&referrer=https://www.google.com/ (链接到外部网站。)链接到外部网站。

How would the guaranteed income work? What do you think would happen if we adopted it in the U.S.? What if we didn’t adopt it?