Scott Santens
Writer and full-time advocate of unconditional basic income (UBI); Citizen of Earth and New Orleans; Bachelor of Science in Psychology; Editor of Basic Income Today
Is It Actually Possible to Live on a Basic Income of $12,000 Per Year?
(in the United States)
As you may already know, I'm actively crowdfunding a basic income of $12,000 per year, and am currently about 20% of the way there. (Thank you, Patreon patrons!) I chose this amount because I advocate the starting level of a basic income guarantee in the U.S. be set here, defined as being just above the poverty level (in 2015).
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Debunking the Debunking of "Humans Need Not Apply" and More
The fallacy of "the luddite fallacy"
This gif is the kind of imagery that gets our attention and gets us all wondering about what is going to happen to the people who did these jobs now being done by robots.
There are a lot of people wondering about the answer to this question, and drawing conclusions like 47% of all current jobs are at risk of being automated within 20 . . .
Posted in: automationbullshit jobshumans need not apply
New Medium Article: Universal Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century
Can the savings of basic income exceed the costs?
Read the article I published on Medium on February 5th, 2015.
Summary: This article starts with an introduction to how hugely cost-saving vaccines are, especially our use of them to eradicate smallpox. It then asks if poverty could be like smallpox and goes into basic income's potential as a social vaccine to eradicate it, and . . .
Why should adults with kids get more basic income?
The question of child allowances
This is a question that shows a particular perspective in the very way it's framed.
What about this question instead:
"Why should kids get basic incomes too, and not just adults?"
They might look like they are basically the same, but they contain different viewpoints.
Here's the deal. I . . .
The Potential Effects of a Universal Basic Income Guarantee on Student Loans
UBI as Universal Room and Board
Yes, it's true. I actually made this Futurama-inspired image recently to celebrate my life's most recent milestone at age thirty-seven, and it climbed to the front page of Reddit. The fact it was upvoted by almost 4,000 people I think says something. And what is that something?
There are a lot of people out there . . .
Posted in: debteducationstudent loans
If we no longer force people to work to meet their basic needs, won't they stop working?
Acknowledging our one option society
What underlies a question like this is that it's okay to force people to work by withholding what they need to live, in order to force them to work for us. And at the same time, because they are forced, we don't even pay them enough to meet their basic needs that we are withholding to force them to work.
What is a good word . . .
What We Can Learn About Systems from W. Edwards Deming
4 Key Lessons from The New Economics
Japan arose like a phoenix from the ruins of World War II to quickly become the second most powerful economy in the world. This unbelievable feat has been called an “economic miracle.”
Do you know how they did it?
The answer to this question may surprise you. It involves a single American name and a single visualization. The . . .
