France eyeing up free-for-all benefits because of robots

France are eyeing up an inclusive benefits system that would see every adult receive a basic income of €750 in the fear robots will take over 3million jobs. Two of the seven candidates vying to represent the ruling Socialist Party in this year's presidential election are promising the money to all French adults. The radical move is already being tested in Finland and other experiments are planned elsewhere - including in the United States. If implemented in France, the potential costs could be an eye-watering €700billion a year, and critics have said it would promote laziness. French politicians, from left to right, Arnaud Montebourg, Jean-Luc Bennahmias, Francois de Rugy, Benoit Hamon, Vincent Peillon, Manuel Valls and Sylvia Pinel, attend the first prime-time televised debate for the French left's presidential primaries in La Plaine Saint-Denis, near Paris The reason for the drastic measures is the number of automated systems and machines increasingly replacing human workers.