Taiwan launches fictional basic income book series
Taiwan launches its first fiction anthology centered on the idea ofbasic income produced by UBI Taiwan and SciFaSaurus Publishing.
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UBI Taiwan 在巴西舉辦的大會首次向國際社群發表。此書以無條件基本收入（UBI）為核心設定，集結 8 篇短篇小說與 1 則短篇漫畫，透過近未來與遠未來的敘事，探討 AI 與勞動再分配、性別與家庭關係、社會安全網與公民參與等議題，試圖以文學開啟政策想像。
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