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
Top 10 Basic Income Articles of 2018
A look back at my favorite UBI reads of the year
As a moderator of the /r/BasicIncome subreddit, I read a lot of links every year about UBI, probably around 100 per month. Once again, as I did last year, I've compiled a list of the ten articles/papers/reports I consider the most important to read out of everything published this year. Please bookmark, read,and share away!
. . .Standing on Shoulders
In Memory of Gerald Huff (1964-2018)
On November 17, 2018, a true human being named Gerald Huff died of pancreatic cancer. He was a fellow basic income advocate and a friend.
Like me, he was passionate about UBI, so much so that he had been working for five years on his first novel, a work of science fiction about the future we are headed towards, where UBI plays a . . .
What People Get Most Wrong About Unconditional Basic Income
My article in Prospect Magazine
Prospect Magazine approached me to write an article for them about what people get most wrong about unconditional basic income. It was published on December 3, 2018. As it exists behind a soft paywall, the full article can be found below. You can also choose to listen to it in audio form.
The idea of an unconditional basic income as . . .
New on Medium: The Zombification of Intellectual Property and the Tool That Could Finally Reform It
How IP-Funded Basic Income Could Enrich the Public Domain
I've just published a new feature-length article over on Medium "The Zombification of Intellectual Property and the Tool That Could Finally Reform It".
Here's an excerpt:
In the 2009 paper Forever Minus a Day? Calculating Optimal Copyright Term, its author Rufus Pollock of the University of Cambridge . . .
Posted in: funding methodsmedium
New on Medium: Doug Ford Cancelled Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot Experiment Because It Was Working
I've just published a new feature-length article over on Medium "Doug Ford Cancelled Ontario’s Basic Income Pilot Experiment Because It Was Working".
Here's an excerpt:
It cannot be ignored that the cancellation of a three-year experiment involving real live human beings is an ethical violation of the . . .
New on Medium: What We Need to Truly Thrive: Democracy and Unconditional Basic Income
I've just published over on Medium "What We Need to Truly Thrive: Democracy and Unconditional Basic Income". It's actually the text of the speech I wrote for my keynote at DemCon 2018 in Ireland.
I've also posted the slide presentation I created for this speech as well to SlideShare.
Here's an . . .
One Thing to Build a More Open World: Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)
A one-minute case for the power to say NO
The video below was created for The Economist's Open Future contest where everyone has one minute to change the world. This is my minute.
The one thing I would change is no power to say NO...
No. I will not work for a poverty wage. No. I will not be abused. No. I will not be dominated, or controlled, or coerced . . .
Posted in: moral argumenttranscriptvideovoluntary labor
