Basic Income and the New Golden Age of Capitalism | Floyd Marinescu | TEDxWindsor

Technology created the middle class and now it is destroying it. A universal basic income could preserve and expand a middle class way of life for everyone, bringing in an era of human prosperity and wellbeing worthy of being called a new golden age of capitalism - but only if we can come to see that technology is our shared inheritance. Floyd Marinescu is CEO and co-founder of C4Media which provides software development news and learning events serving 1.2M online on InfoQ.com, and 8000 attendees annually via QCon conferences in SF, NY, London, Beijing, Shanghai, and Sao Paulo. Floyd is an angel investor in over a dozen startups, and has built teams and businesses in the US, Canada, China, Brazil, Europe. Floyd is a CEO activist for universal basic income and led 120 Canadian CEOs to endorse basic income in Canada in Oct, 2018. Floyd's non-profit UBIWorks.ca promotes Universal Basic Income in Canada. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx