Is a job guarantee the solution to mass AI unemployment?

'In its most ambitious form, such a program would ensure that anyone who wants work is guaranteed a meaningful, decently paid job.' 'In its most ambitious form, such a program would ensure that anyone who wants work is guaranteed a meaningful, decently paid job.' We earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Is a job guarantee the solution to mass AI unemployment? In a preface to his book Capitalism and Freedom, the American economist Milton Friedman famously observed that a crisis can propel once-fringe ideas into the political mainstream. "Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around," he wrote.