By Pat Kane. First published on JUNE 22ND, 2019
‘MOVE fast and break things,” said the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2009. “Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.”
You might have thought their recent troubles – that is, being revealed as a tool of political extremism, misinformation and destabilisation – would have slowed Facebook down a little.
By Pat Kane. First published on DECEMBER 9TH, 2017
WHAT are the problems to which basic income is a solution? In Scotland, we’re at the start of an answer to that question, as the Scottish Government announces financial support for feasibility studies in four council areas – Fife, Edinburgh, Glasgow and North Ayrshire.
Will we be getting visits from supermoguls like Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, who have recently spoken up in favour of the policy? I’m sure they’ll be welcomed to the Kingdom of Fife – but I’m not sure they’d be here for the same reason.