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
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Press
- Basic Income Advocate Founds “The BIG Patreon Creator Pledge” - Featured in Basic Income News
- Basic Income Might Be The Answer To Society's Productivity Crisis - Interview with Forbes
- Basic income experts say Trump could be the radical change America needs - Interview with Business Insider
- What If Everybody Didn't Have to Work to Get Paid? - Featured in The Atlantic
- This could be the most important holiday when robots take all our jobs - Interview with Tech Insider
- When Will Self-Driving Trucks Destroy America? - Referenced in Bloomberg View
- Basic income crowdfunder sees Swiss vote’s potential - Interview with Swissinfo.ch
- Basic income pilot project a taste of things to come - Interview with Windsor Independent
- What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money? - Interview with FiveThirtyEight
- Happy Basic Income Day - Interview with Motherboard
- The Future Threat to Middle America No One Is Talking About - Interview with Mic
- Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Kill Jobs, and Not Just for Drivers - Referenced in Gizmodo
- The Cryptocurrency-Based Projects That Would Pay Everyone Just for Being Alive - Referenced in Vice
- Automated Inequality - Interview with Harvard Politics
- Scott Santens talks universal basic income, and why the U.S. could adopt it by 2035 - Interview with Futurism
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- Unconditional Basic Income - Discussion Whose Time Has Come? - Interview with Bold Blue Magazine (pg 30-31)
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Featured Articles
- The progressive case for replacing the welfare state with basic income - TechCrunch
- What people get most wrong about unconditional basic income - Prospect
- What if you got $1,000 a month, just for being alive? I decided to find out. - Vox
- Why Switzerland’s basic income idea is not crazy - POLITICO
- Why we should all have a basic income - World Economic Forum
- Robots will take your job - Boston Globe
- Will automated trucks be a job killer? – Yes, they will. - 2025 AD
- Trickle-Down Economics Must Die. Long Live Grow-Up Economics - The Huffington Post
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Where I've Worked
- Telect, Inc. - Technical Support Specialist
- Self-employed since 1997 - Website and Social Media Management
- Human Interaction With Nature and Technological Systems Lab (The HINTS Lab) - Research Assistant
- Packard Bell - Technical Support Expert
