I’m Scott Santens, and I've been researching and advocating for the concept of unconditional universal basic income (or UBI) since 2013.
Acknowledged by former U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang as one of those who helped shape his thinking, I've lived with a basic income floor via Patreon since 2015 which has enabled me to focus on popularizing UBI full-time.
I am the founder and CEO of the Income To Support All (ITSA) Foundation, host of The Basic Income Show, and I also serve on the board of directors of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity and have a Substack: Foreword to Civilization.
My debut book about UBI and how to pay for it is titled Let There Be Money. You can buy it on Amazon or listen to it for free on your favorite podcast platform.
Thank you to all who support my work by sharing it, and if you're new to UBI, my UBI FAQ or my evidence threads on Bluesky or X are great places to start.
A Guide to Basic Income: Frequently Asked Questions about UBI
Over the years I've been asked many questions about the idea of an unconditional universal basic income guarantee. Some questions are asked far more than others, and so I've made a point of writing various articles to answer many of these questions. Whatever question you may
Does Basic Income Cause Divorce? 50 Years of Evidence Says No.
The 1970s fear that UBI breaks up families came from a statistical error. Finland, Canada, Kenya, and Alaska show no rise in divorce, and instead better relationships with less domestic violence. Researchers at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare just published a study in the journal Demographic Research that
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The neuroscience of learned control, the AI safety crisis no one should ignore, and why the fight over data centers is really about who holds the power. In 1967, a young psychologist named Martin Seligman ran an experiment on dogs that became one of the most famous in the history
A 4-Day Workweek, Medicare for All, and the Tax That Gets Us There
How a Pigovian automation tax can turn AI’s productivity gains into a 4-day, 32-hour workweek and universal healthcare A recent economics paper laid out what I and others have been saying for years about how companies are facing an automation arms race, and how they can’t
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