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Why Switzerland’s basic income idea is not crazy
Seven out of 10 voters fully expect another referendum in Switzerland, and the beginning of a necessary national conversation This article was originally published on POLITICO [https://www.politico.eu/article/unconditional-basic-income-news-why-switzerlands-basic-income-idea-is-not-crazy-vote-referendum/] Switzerland has voted against [https://www.politico.eu/article/switzerlands-voters-reject-plan-provide-base-income-for-all-francs-referendum-welfare-democracy/] providing everyone a monthly
The Results of the Basic Income Referendum in Switzerland
Today is the day Switzerland voted on the idea of an unconditional basic income. It is a first. It is historic. It is direct democracy in action. As I write this here from inside the campaign headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, the polls are still open and people are still voting,
Last Month in Basic Income... A Summary of April 2016
Continuing my pledge to monthly summarize the growth of the basic income movement worldwide (that’s the bipartisan call to change your monthly starting point from $0 to somewhere above the poverty line instead), it’s time again to look back at the previous month. You can read last month’
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
Last Month in Basic Income... A Summary of March 2016
Basic income as a global movement around an idea is officially spreading like wildfire. According to Google Trends, interest in the idea has quadrupled just in the past three months. Source: Google Trends [https://www.google.com.sg/trends/explore#q=%22basic%20income%22&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%
Humanity Needs Universal Basic Income in Order to Stop Impeding Progress
Human beings are waking up early in the mornings to drive to offices to perform imaginary business in imaginary markets involving imaginary customers using imaginary money to buy imaginary goods and services instead of simply enjoying their non-imaginary and most definitely real lives with each other. I believe Richard Feynman
Deep Learning Is Going to Teach Us All the Lesson of Our Lives: Jobs Are for Machines
(An alternate version of this article was originally published in the Boston Globe) [http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/02/24/robots-will-take-your-job/5lXtKomQ7uQBEzTJOXT7YO/story.html] On December 2nd, 1942, a team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi came back from lunch and watched as humanity created the first self-sustaining nuclear
The Social Network and Basic Income
There's something I do every single day, throughout the day, even on weekends, and I've done it since 2013. There's a reason I do it beyond what might be typically presumed, and the basis for that reason is my appreciation for complex systems theory
YouTube as an Intrinsic Motivation Window
As I've blogged about previously, being a cord cutter I watch YouTube instead of TV, and it's because of this I think I don't see people in the same way many do, where there's a mistaken belief people do nothing unless paid
Inequality and the Basic Income Guarantee
This essay is part of a collection of 37 from the Wicked Problems Collaborative [http://www.wickedproblemscollaborative.com/] of which I’m part, titled “What Do We Do About Inequality?” The book is available on Amazon [http://amzn.to/2bRRDGP] in Kindle and paperback formats. The use of cash transfers
