Many analysts and entrepreneurs, including key players such as Elon Musk or Bill Gates, believe in the creation of a universal basic income is necessary. Except that they do not convincingly explain how wealth should be redistributed, and how taxation of robots and companies based on AI automatisms should take place.
The labor crisis poses not only economic problems, but far more complex ones: it calls into question the very role of the individual in society.
As Italians, we must remember that our constitution defines Italy as a Republic founded on work. Moreover, a recent report by the Catholic University of Milan points out that demographic decline will soon cause a severe shortage of workers, rather than labor.
Not all experts are convinced by the prevailing “end of work” doctrine; many argue that, as in other industrial revolutions, workers will move from one industry to another. Indeed, new professions are already emerging and professionals “extended” by artificial intelligence are emerging.
On the future of work, too, there is therefore a need for focus accompanied by rapid action aimed at the development of the professions of the future, to which schools must contribute by implementing specific training and professionalizing workshops.
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