Description
The majority of posts about basic income on reddit are about technology, it’s clear from the visualization that the articles of this topic are always supporting basic income and the main part is referring to basic income in general and not in a specific country. When the tone of articles about technology is negative usually the focus is about the possible dangers of automation, on the other hand when the tone is positive usually some Silicon Valley’s enterpreneur is speaking about a bright future where robots work in place of men.
Protocol
Using Google Big Query, we exctracted the first 55 most commented articles about basic income posted on reddit in 2017, then we analyzed the tone of the articles using Aylien sentiment analysis and finally we manually tagged the position about basic income of the articles.
Data
Timestamp: 01/1/2004 - 15/11/2017
Data source: Wayback network per year
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Top 10 commented articles of every month of 2017 from january to september