Basic Income as Paid Parental Leave
Once again John Oliver has shone a light on something important we tend to not discuss, and that is the way we in the United States collectively treat those who just gave birth. We force them right back to work. That part at the end... where they show the mothers
Basic Income Day is a Great Idea, and Especially on May Day!
In a recent opinion piece [http://www.basicincome.org/news/2015/05/basic-income-day-is-a-great-idea-but-not-on-may-day/] published on May 2nd, Jurgen De Wispelaere made a case for the need to change Basic Income Day [http://basicincomeday.org/] to a date other than May 1st. As the organizer of the Reddit Basic Income community
A Basic Income Day Toolkit
Happy Basic Income Day, everyone [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/happy-basic-income-day]! (<-- you're definitely going to want to read this) To all basic income supporters, there are some actions taking place today that are important to be aware of for those who would like to take part,
Motherboard interview about Basic Income Day
Brian Merchant of Motherboard contacted me in regards to doing a piece about Basic Income Day and the successful campaign [https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/24575-basic-income-day-is-1st-of-may] I've organized with the help of /r/BasicIncome [http://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/] and our international friends behind BasicIncomeDay.org [http:
What America Spends Per Citizen Per Year
(This is an excerpt from my piece titled "How We Can Transform America’s Broken Economic System to Work for EVERYONE". You can read it in full on Medium. Per citizen calculations are based on 92.8% of the US population being legal citizens.) The following is a
"Won't basic income give too much power to whomever distributes it?"
One of the more common responses to first hearing about the idea of a basic income guarantee, is the fear that it would give too much power to government. The thinking goes that if government is giving money to everyone, then they could threaten to discontinue doing so at any
"Yeah, but who's going to pay for it?"
"Money, Guilt, and the Machine" by Alan Watts (The following text is what I personally transcribed from a video originally uploaded to YouTube by AlanWattsLectures of a lecture given by philosopher Alan Watts circa late '60s) So this goes very deep into us. It goes deep, deep,
John Oliver, Edward Snowden, and Unconditional Basic Income
How all three are surprisingly connected In what is arguably the most important piece to come out of John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” show on HBO so far, John tackles the subject of government surveillance and does so in a way that is guaranteed to win awards in the
Reddit, Robots, and Resources
(The following is an edited transcript from my appearance on the Robot Overlordz podcast adapted for article form. You can read the original unedited transcript and also listen to the show in full here [https://robotoverlordz.fm/show/200-ep00153-notes]. A big thank you to Mike Johnston and Matt Bolton for
TANF is TERRIBLE
There is a belief in this country that we help the poor, and the poor take advantage of this help to become welfare kings and queens. Both the left and the right perpetuate this myth in their own way. The left believes the government is helping people and the right