https://RationalAmerica.com/tags/automation/Recent content in Automation on Rational AmericaHugoen-usSat, 05 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/stop-panicking-about-automation--start-building-a/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/stop-panicking-about-automation--start-building-a/<p>You haven’t finished your first coffee. The Slack chime rings and your manager drops another link into #company-updates. The title this time? <em>“AI Just Ate Another White‑Collar Career.”</em></p> <p>It isn’t that the piece is completely wrong. Not entirely. Still, the daily flood of robot‑doom columns creates something most people mistake for insight: a constant, low‑grade panic that freezes your ability to think clearly.</p> <p>Let’s unpack that panic for a second. Because if automation is genuinely reshaping the labor market — and it is — then panic is the one response you cannot afford.</p>https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/are-you-missing-the-rational-case-for-universal-ba/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/are-you-missing-the-rational-case-for-universal-ba/<p>When did you last hear universal basic income discussed as a <em>boring, sensible policy instrument</em>?</p> <p>If the phrase immediately makes you picture a Twitter argument between a libertarian thought-leader and a worried dad from Ohio, that’s understandable. UBI has become a meme, a football, a culture-war litmus test. It rarely gets treated like something an ordinary adult can evaluate with a clear head and a spreadsheet.</p> <p>So here’s the question this article keeps circling back to. What happens if you strip away the tech-bro futurism, the doomsday automation stuff and the moral panics, and just ask one thing: does unconditional cash actually solve a measurable problem at a tolerable cost?</p>